Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being picked, in any sense.
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- adjective That cannot be
picked .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In particular, the ES&S scanner lock was easily picked with a paper clip during our tests, while the "unpickable" lock on the Sequoia scanner was bypassed by removing a few screws and pulling out the lock cylinder from the scanner's chassis by hand.
'Fatally Flawed' Systems Await Voters: 'Drastic Change Needed' 2008
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Detergent-dispensing washing machines, leak-resistant faucets and unpickable locks are generating buzz.
The Can-Do Home Show 2008
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Perhaps surprisingly, Clyde Roberson, the technical director at Medeco High Security Locks (which are praised by lock aficionados as being virtually unpickable), tends to agree with Schneier.
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It's not like he'd paid Lowe's for some fancy unpickable lock or anything.
Homebody Card, Orson Scott 1998
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Their result is a handsome parade-place, -- a pretty stone toy, -- an unpickable lock to an inclosure nobody wants to enter, -- a navy-yard for the creation of an armament which has no commerce to protect.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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A guardian, when you had signed your name again, unlocked three unpickable, incombustible, and gunpowder-proof locks in a massive steel door, and you were admitted, assuming always that the hour was between nine and six.
Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899
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Hobbs's unpickable lock, Hoe's wonderful printing presses, and Bond's more wonderful spring governor, --- it began to be suspected that Brother Jonathan was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been thought.
Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887
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Powers's Greek Slave, Hobbs's unpickable lock, Hoe's wonderful printing presses, and Bond's more wonderful spring governor, --- it began to be suspected that Brother Jonathan was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been thought.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862
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These lockers are fitted with one unpickable dual lock master key system.
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This kind of safety lockers are fitted with one or two unpickable dual controlled mechanical locks or electronic locks.
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