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locker-room [lok-er-room, -roo m] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN adjective of, characteristic of, or suitable to conversation in a locker room; earthy or sexually explicit: locker-room humor. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of locker-room First recorded in 1945–50 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. Origin of locker room First recorded in 1890–95 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for locker-room Contemporary Examples of locker-room
It takes time for behaviors, especially community-driven ones like locker-room antics, to catch up with changing social mores.
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Jay Michaelson
September 20, 2012
The locker-room may be a post-racial environment, but it is not a post-sexual one.
Alex Massie
December 25, 2009
Historical Examples of locker-room
She turned, on her way out of the locker-room, and shot a quick glance at Sidney.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Arrived at the locker-room, she opened her locker and took out her wraps.
Pauline Lester
The lights had gone out, and they seemed to be alone in the locker-room.
Elsie Singmaster
He did question them down in the locker-room, I thought perhaps for the moral effect.
Arthur B. Reeve
Did you see anything peculiar take place in the locker-room?
Arthur B. Reeve
