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Vinony

locker

noun

  1. lockable storage compartment
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈlɒk.ə(ɹ)/ / /ˈlɑ.kɚ/ / /ˈlɔk.ə(ɹ)/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun locker. Compare Lock. * Also as an English surname, variant of Luker. * As an Austrian German surname Löcker, nickname for a buffoon, from Middle High German lecken (“to kick, jump”), of obscure origin, but compare Latin locusta (“grasshopper”) or Old English læccan (“to seize”). * As a Slovene surname, Americanized/Germanized from Lokar, from loka (“water meadow”), from Proto-Slavic *lǫka. Compare Loker.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From lock + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix). Related to German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.

  1. A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.

    “The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.”

    “This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.”

  2. A lockable cubicle.

    “She was afraid to come out of the locker.”

  3. A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.
  4. One who locks something.

    “The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.”

  5. A locking differential.
  6. A customs officer who guards a warehouse.

    “The actual delivery of the goods is then effected by any person bearing an order from the importer, called a merchant's order, and addressed to the warehouse-keeper, upon the presentment of which the warehouseman delivers the goods, having previously obtained the signature of the locker to it as a proof that the duties have been paid […]”

  7. A closet.
  8. An online storage service for files.

    “2014, Cory Doctorow, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age Then there are online service providers (OSPs), which might provide you with a message board, a blogging system, a video-hosting service, a file locker, an instant-messaging system, or an email box.”