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  • verb transitive To release from a padlock.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ padlock

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Examples

  • Sleep sweetly among your comrades who are wiser than we, being so indifferent to happy endings that they would never unpadlock sorrow, though they had the key in their keeping.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • Sleep sweetly among your comrades who are wiser than we, being so indifferent to happy endings that they would never unpadlock sorrow, though they had the key in their keeping.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • Sleep sweetly among your comrades who are wiser than we, being so indifferent to happy endings that they would never unpadlock sorrow, though they had the key in their keeping.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

  • And it will be just one more thing you have to faff about with (remembering to unpadlock it on bin day, which will be the day that people go around putting their rubbish in other people’s bins), one more in a set of rules that add up to make us feel observed, monitored, and under surveillance.

    Recycled Post « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007

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