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Lock up

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Lock up may refer to:

Computing

Film and television

  • Lock Up (1989 film), an American prison action film featuring Sylvester Stallone
  • Lock Up (2020 film), an Indian Tamil-language thriller film
  • Lock-Up (TV series), a 1959 American legal drama series
  • Lockup (TV series), a prison documentary series on MSNBC

Finance

  • Lock-up provision, a corporate finance term
  • Lock-up period, a term concerning initial public offerings of stock

Graphics and advertising

  • Lock up, particular graphic arrangement of a logo and accompanying elements, such as a company name or a tagline

Music

  • Lock Up (American band), an American rock band, featuring guitarist Tom Morello during his pre-Rage Against the Machine career
  • Lock Up (UK band), a UK grindcore band
  • Lock Up, a BBC radio show hosted by Mike Davies featuring mostly punk associated acts
    • Lock Up, a stage at the Reading & Leeds music festival named after the radio show

Prison

  • Village lock-up / One-room jail, a small prison once used to detain people temporarily
  • a cell, in a police station used to hold detainees until they are charged to be produced before a court (such as magistrate), released, searched, diagnosed or sectioned (among other legally permissible actions, depending on jurisdiction).

Other

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