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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

“Just being on the other side, the other bench, in the other locker room, it was just really weird,” Lue said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Three losses, you walked around the locker room crying and handing out lacrosse sticks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

I give her a high five and then run back inside, where the team is finally filing into the locker room.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

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 fan and locker-room favorite played his way into the Big 3 for the Lakers, but in the playoffs it was painfully clear the team needed a big man instead.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

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

It looked like I was lying inside a clearing in a forest of pale, hairy legs with white Burnt Mill Creek High School locker-room towels flocking their upper branches.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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