Meanings
comparative more airlocked · superlative most airlocked
- Equipped with an airlock.
While Flora and Doc waited their turn through the airlocked tube to the city, Simianoids walked past in a column of fives
2014 November 13, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 104 - Blocked or non-functional due to an air lock.
- Northern IrelandUlsterExtremely drunk.
It was sporadically interrupted by Sam standing up and spreading his arms high and wide to exclaim, 'I'm fuckin' airlocked! I'm fuckin' airlocked!' He was letting everyone know that he was indeed quite drunk.
2018 April 18, Alan Croft, There's Always Risk in Movement: Tales from Old Reading Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of airlock
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (“to stop suddenly”), which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.
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