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noun

a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.

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While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.
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“Now they will definitely lock Navalny in prison,” one of the women in the crowd said.
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Who knew that a competition where you clutch the hand of another man and lock eyes across a table could be this damn gay.
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In many ways, she seems a lock for the win, but her atheism puts her entire character in question.
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The Duplex Drive (called DD) was one: an amphibious conversion which could be fitted to a normal Sherman tank.
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The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.
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I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Another manner of punishment consists in making them wear a tin mask, which is fastened with a lock behind.
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The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
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He turned into the right number, as he thought, but upon trying to insert the key in the lock he found that he had made a mistake.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux