Meanings
locker room1
plural locker rooms · alternative lockerroom · alternative locker-room
- CanadaUSA room attached to an athletic, recreational, or workplace facility, filled with lockers for storage of clothing and equipment; clothes are generally changed there.
We changed into our swimsuits in the locker room next to the pool.
Synonyms: changing room, dressing room
alternative lockerroom · alternative locker-room
- informalnot comparableCharacteristic of conversations held in locker rooms; that is boastful, juvenile, or explicitly sexual.
The others tired of Frank's habitual locker-room boasting about various women he had "scored" with
2 more examples
“I think of how scary it was for me starting comedy in Chicago, and then how much scarier it would have been if I was a woman starting comedy there because it really was such a boys’ club,” he says. “It was very aggressive. It was very locker room.
2018 January 22, Melody Chiu, Emily V. Gordon, “How Kumail Nanjiani Found the 'Perfect' Wife (and More!)”, in PeopleIt’s in a very locker room, busting-my-stones sort of way.
2018 January 30, Neil Best, “Director explains how ‘The Two Bills’ documentary with Parcells and Belichick came together”, in Newsday (New York)
locker room2
alternative lockerroom · alternative locker-room
- slanguncountableinhalants
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA room attached to an athletic, recreational, or workplace facility, filled with lockers for storage of clothing and equipment; clothes are generally changed there.
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with locker room
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locker room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/locker%20room
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