locker room

noun

A 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.”

Meanings

locker room1

nounlocker room (plural locker rooms)

plural locker rooms · alternative lockerroom · alternative locker-room

  1. 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

adjectivelocker room (not comparable)

alternative lockerroom · alternative locker-room

  1. 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 People

    It’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

nounlocker room (uncountable)

alternative lockerroom · alternative locker-room

  1. 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.

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APA

locker room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/locker%20room

MLA

“locker room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/locker%20room. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “locker room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/locker%20room.

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