love lock

plural love locks

1. alternativeAlternative form of love-lock.

   Love locks are visually repulsive. They are barnacles that accumulate in a mass of decaying metal.

   2015 June 2, Jonathan Jones, “Love locks are the shallowest, stupidest, phoniest expression of love ever – time to put a stop to it”, in The Guardian

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   So many locks have been placed on the bridge over the years that Parisian authorities have concluded the bridge is now holding too much weight along with the cars and trucks, and they have banned the practice of love locks.

   2019, Terry Olsen, Let Love Go Forward, Redemption Press, →ISBN