Scrabble & Words with friends points
- locks is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 11
- locks is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 11
- locks is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 13
Definition of locks
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key (noun)
Synonyms
- ignition lock
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape (verb)
Examples
- The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
- She locked her jewels in the safe
Synonyms
- lock away
- lock in
- lock up
- put away
- shut away
- shut up
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it (noun)
Synonyms
- lock chamber
- hold in a locking position (verb)
Examples
- He locked his hands around her neck
Synonyms
- interlace
- interlock
- keep engaged (verb)
Synonyms
- engage
- mesh
- operate
- a strand or cluster of hair (noun)
Synonyms
- curl
- ringlet
- whorl
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another (verb)
Examples
- They were locked in embrace
Synonyms
- interlock
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed (noun)
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun (noun)
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured (noun)
- become rigid or immoveable (verb)
Examples
- The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels (verb)
- fasten with a lock (verb)
Examples
- lock the bike to the fence
- hold fast (in a certain state) (verb)
Examples
- He was locked in a laughing fit
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway (verb)
See definition of locks in Merriam Webster