Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that makes or repairs locks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificer whose occupation is to make locks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person whose occupation is to make, mend, or install locks, or to make keys for locks.
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- noun one who studies or practices
locksmithing - noun gambling, slang someone who only bets when they are sure they will win
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes or repairs locks
Etymologies
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Examples
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Next I called the locksmith from the previous day, who again said he could be at my apartment in half an hour.
Sanctuary 2009
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When you go to somebody ` s house and you ring the doorbell and you knock and they don ` t come, do you call the locksmith, or do you just leave like a normal person?
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Actually, what comes in to be expensive is when you call the locksmith to put it in.
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He claims when he brought his kids home one night after a weekend with him, Kathleen wasn ` t home, so what he did was tell a neighbor, and they called a locksmith to get in the house.
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I called a locksmith from a local coffee shop at 8:50, and they assured me they would hurry.
Here’s Why Richard Branson Should Be Delta Airlines’ Biggest Fan - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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So he calls the locksmith, who had probably stopped at the local topless bar on the way in based on the noise in the background.
fishbuttocks Diary Entry fishbuttocks 2006
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Bolts and bars being all unused, the business of locksmith is quite at a discount in the back woods, where all idea of a midnight robbery is unknown; and yet, if rumour was true, there were persons not far from us to whom the trade of stealing would not be new.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845
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Feeling a chill of desperation to get my child to school, and myself to work, I called a locksmith.
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When I called the locksmith, they wanted $95 to JUST drill open the safe, nothing more.
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“If we call a locksmith to change the locks, couldn’t he just grab the keys under the porch instead?”
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
"n. An artificer whose occupation is to make locks."
March 28, 2017