LOCKER ROOM Definition & Meaning

locker room

noun

a room containing lockers, as in a gymnasium, factory, or school, for changing clothes and for the storage and safekeeping of personal belongings.

locker-room

[ lok-er-room, -room ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, characteristic of, or suitable to conversation in a locker room; earthy or sexually explicit:
locker-room humor.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of locker room¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Origin of locker room²

First recorded in 1945–50

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SPOKANE, Wash. — The tenacious freshman stared ahead blankly, her eyes welling with tears, the losing USC locker room silent around her.

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The truth was few outside of the Trojans’ locker room knew what they were capable of without JuJu Watkins, whose season-ending anterior cruciate ligament tear loomed large over the entire tournament.

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The Bruins often recalled the empty feeling in last year’s locker room as motivation to improve this season.

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Watkins was carried to the locker room, and an MRI revealed that she sustained a torn ACL, according to a person familiar with the diagnosis not authorized to discuss it publicly.

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The bitter emotions she felt sitting on the training table in UCLA’s locker room in Albany, N.Y., while processing yet another Sweet 16 loss.

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