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• locker room
  locker room

  noun

  a room containing lockers, as in a gymnasium, factory, or school, for changing clothes and for the storage and safekeeping of personal belongings.
• locker-room
  locker-room

  adjective

  of, characteristic of, or suitable to conversation in a locker room; earthy or sexually explicit.

locker room

¹ American  

noun

• locker rooms
  plural

1. a room containing lockers, as in a gymnasium, factory, or school, for changing clothes and for the storage and safekeeping of personal belongings.

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locker-room ² American  

[lok-er-room, -room] / ˈlɒk ərˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

adjective

1. of, characteristic of, or suitable to conversation in a locker room; earthy or sexually explicit.

   locker-room humor.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• locker rooms
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of locker room¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Origin of locker-room²

First recorded in 1945–50

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Example Sentences

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locker room locker-room

Right now the address is a trans child in a locker room.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

"I feel very fortunate to have shared a locker room with you. I'm going to miss you so much."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Hachimura jokingly walked toward the Lakers locker room before the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

The latter cocktail references a scene in the Raiders’ locker room: One of Ilya’s teammates sees him secretly texting Shane.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Yolanda and I rush to the locker room together.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

“They got right the ACLs, they got right the locker-room dynamic, they got right the training facility,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Light Helmets circumvents locker-room gatekeepers and makes endorsement deals in a bid for visibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Later, there were cheers and applause: standing near Shane in an otherwise-empty row of locker-room showers was the confident Ilya Rozanov, from Russia.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

The book, published in 1974, had been long been criticized by some parents for its modest locker-room talk and anti-authority worldview — and enjoyed by the young in part for the same reasons.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

Yolanda is waiting for me just outside the locker-room doors.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

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