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lock on (to someone or something)

to fasten or grab onto someone or something. She locked onto the child and wouldn't leave his side for an instant. I saw the thing 1wanted and locked on.

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It is, I suppose, Boulter's not even excepted, the busiest lock on the river. Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context How is it that you let Tait's people put us off with a defective lock on the cabin door? Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context This the white-haired man told me was to be my apartment; and the inner door, which "for fear of accidents," he said, he would lock on the other side, was my limit inward. The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context			load load down load into load onto load up load with loaded loaded for bear loaded to the gills loads of loaf loaf around loaf away loan loan to lob at lobby lobby against lobby for local yokel lock lock away lock horns lock in lock in on lock on lock onto lock out of lock up lock, stock, and barrel locker locker-room loco lodge lodge against lodge in lodge with log log for log off log on log up loggerhead loin loiter loiter around loiter away loiter over loll loll about loll around			Lock in amplifier lock in on Lock In Period Lock In Periods Lock In Principal Lock In Principals Lock In Rate Lock In Rates Lock In/Lock Out Lock Industry Standards and Training lock into lock into lock into lock into lock into lock jamb Lock jaw Lock jaw Lock jaw lock joint Lock keeper Lock keeper Lock Limit Lock Limits lock manager lock miter Lock Ness, Scotland lock nut lock nut Lock Off Stop lock on Lock on Range/Target Acquisition Range Lock on Target lock on to lock on to attach or fix onto lock onto Lock operator Lock Order Reversal lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out of Lock Out Tag Out Lock Out Tail Cap Lock Period Lock plate Lock plate lock primer Lock rail Lock rail Lock rand lock reinforcement lock reinforcing unit lock ring lock seam lock seam door Lock Step Lock Step

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