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  • noun Plural form of lockdown.

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Examples

  • Staff members assembled the kits to use during long-term lockdowns like the four hours Patterson High School students spent in their classrooms last fall when fights broke out on campus.

    Merced Sun-Star: front 2009

  • Staff members assembled the kits to use during long-term lockdowns like the four hours Patterson High School students spent in their classrooms last fall when fights broke out on campus.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Usually in cases where there are what the Secret Service calls lockdowns or evacuations, they will stop people from walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.

    CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2001 2001

  • Eyewitness News was told the lockdowns were a precaution because of police activity nearby, but it's unclear why police were in the area.

    WFTV.com - Local News 2009

  • Obviously, they've seen these kind of lockdowns before.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2005 2005

  • Up ahead, thousands of young people organized by DAN had launched a series of sit-ins to blockade hotels where WTO delegates were housed and "lockdowns" of streets in which activists chained their arms together inside lead pipes.

    Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org 2009

  • At specific times during the three-week operation, police will combine their efforts for border 'lockdowns', in which all motorists travelling across state and territory borders will be subject to random breath tests.

    The RiotACT 2008

  • So would his memories of the hunky jock he lusted after during church lockdowns.

    George Heymont: The Successful Monologist: Nature Versus Nurture? George Heymont 2011

  • So would his memories of the hunky jock he lusted after during church lockdowns.

    George Heymont: The Successful Monologist: Nature Versus Nurture? George Heymont 2011

  • The lockdowns were still in effect as of Monday night, Lewis said.

    Killing stalls religious programs at Wash. prison 2011

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