Lock
Lock verb - Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.
Usage example: She locked her jewels in the safe
Shut up
Shut up verb - Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Others are usually umimpressed and politely ask him to shut up - he eventually pisses of a police officer so much, that she threatens to lock him up.
Source: Roleplay / Neo Pokeforum -
The Admiral manages to get a bickering meeting of Vice Admirals and Commodores to shut up by threatening to lock up the Gin.
Source: The Drunken Sailor - The Navy Lark a bickering meeting of Mad Brass is brought to silence by the shout of "SHUT UP or I'll lock up the gin".
Source: Noisy Shut-Up
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Shut up and Lock. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lock/shut_up
Lock & Shut up. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lock/shut_up>.
Shut up or Lock. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lock/shut_up.
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