lockdown

lockdown
/lok"down'/, n.
the confining of prisoners to their cells, as following a riot or other disturbance.
[1970-75; LOCK1 + -down, prob. extracted from nouns formed from phrasal verbs, such as CRACKDOWN, SHUTDOWN, etc.]

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