To be laid in the locker, verb. phr. (common).—To die. For synonyms see
Aloft.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, xxxiii. Brown’s dead—shot—laid in the
lockers, man.
Davy Jones’ Locker. See Davy Jones.
Shot in the Locker. See Shot.
Lockeram-jaw’d (or Lockram-jawed), adj. (old).—Thin faced, or
lanthorn-jaw’d (q.v.).—B. E. (1690); New Cant. Dict. (1725); Grose
(1785).
Lock-hospital, subs. (common).—A hospital for the treatment of venereal
diseases.
Locksmith’s Daughter, subs. (old).—A key. Also blacksmith’s
daughter.—Grose (1785).
English synonyms. Betty; blacksmith’s daughter (or wife); gilkes (=
skeleton keys); Jack-in-the-box; screw; sket; twirl. See Jemmy and
Thieves.
French synonyms. Une aiguille (popular); un bouton (= master-key); un
débridoir (thieves’); un frou-frou (thieves’ = master-key); une
Josephine (cf. betty); un luctrême (thieves’); un peigne (thieves’);
une penne (une plume = a false key).
German synonyms. Bua (Viennese thieves’: Heb. bube); Dalme or Dalmer
(Dalmerei = lock; Dalmernekef = keyhole); Echeder or Echoder (Heb.
echod: zarfes Echeder = French skeleton key); Haupter (= a master-key);
Hinterschieber; Posschener maphteach; Kleinpurim (= skeleton keys);
Schasklamonis (= a set of skeleton keys).
Dutch synonyms. Draaier; klanker; tantel; troetel.
Italian synonym. Ingegnosa (= witty or possessed of genius).
Lock-up-chovey, subs. (old).—A covered cart.—Grose (1823).
Lock-up House, subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Lock up house, a spunging house, a
public-house kept by sheriff’s officers, to which they convey the
persons they have arrested, where they practise every species of
imposition and extortion, with impunity; also houses kept by agents
or crimps, who inlist, or rather trepan men to serve the East India
or African company as soldiers.
Lock-ups, subs. (Harrow School).—Detention in study.
Loco-foco, subs. (American).—1. A self-lighting match or cigar.
2. (American).—A nickname of the Democratic party (1834–5). [At a
meeting held in Tammany Hall the chairman left his seat and the lights
were suddenly extinguished with a view to breaking up the meeting.
Thereupon a section of the audience relighted the lights by means of
their loco-focos and continued the meeting]. Also as adj. = Democratic;
belonging to the loco-foco party.
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. xvi. p. 162. Here’s full
particulars of the patriotic loco-foco movement yesterday, in which
the Whigs was so chawed up.
1852. Bristed, Upper Ten Thousand, p. 98. The driver was a stubborn
loco-foco.
Locomote, verb. (American).—To walk.
1847. Porter, Quarter Race, 83. He throws the galls in, and a bed
too in the hay, if you git too hot to locomote.
Locomotive, subs. (common).—1. A mixed hot drink: of Burgundy, curaçoa,
yolks, honey, and cloves.