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Meaning of "lock, stock, and barrel" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL

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WHAT DOES LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lock, stock, and barrel

Lock, stock, and barrel is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning 'all', 'total', 'everything'. The effective portions of a gun are the lock; the stock, and the barrel. Collectively they are the weapon, therefore, everything.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL

lock gate
lock horns
lock keeper
lock on to
lock out
lock stitch
lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
lock up
lock-in
lock-up
lockable
lockage
lockbox
lockdown
Locke
locked
locked in
locked-in syndrome
locker
locker room

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL

barrel
beer barrel
biscuit barrel
borrel
carrel
cracker-barrel
cylinder barrel
fox squirrel
grey squirrel
ground squirrel
gun barrel
multibarrel
over a barrel
parrel
pork barrel
quarrel
scrape the barrel
sheep sorrel
sorrel
squirrel

Synonyms and antonyms of lock, stock, and barrel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lock, stock, and barrel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL

Find out the translation of lock, stock, and barrel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lock, stock, and barrel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lock, stock, and barrel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

锁,股票和桶
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Lock, Stock , y el barril
570 millions of speakers

English

lock, stock, and barrel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लॉक , स्टॉक , और बैरल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قفل ، والأوراق المالية ، و برميل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Карты, деньги , и баррель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Jogos, Trapaças e barril
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লক, স্টক, এবং পিপা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Lock, Stock , et le canon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kunci, stok, dan laras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sperre, und Bogen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ロック、ストック、バレル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자물쇠 , 주식 및 배럴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kunci, stok, lan laras
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khóa , chứng khoán , và thùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பூட்டு, பங்கு, மற்றும் பீப்பாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लॉक, स्टॉक, आणि बॅरल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kilit, stok ve namlu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Lock /u0026 Stock e botte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Porachunki i beczki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Карти , гроші , і барель
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

blocare , stoc , și baril
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλειδαριά , απόθεμα και βαρέλι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slot, voorraad , en vat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lås , lager och fat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Lock, Stock , og fat
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lock, stock, and barrel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL»

The term «lock, stock, and barrel» is regularly used and occupies the 91.608 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lock, stock, and barrel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lock, stock, and barrel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lock, stock, and barrel

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL»

Discover the use of lock, stock, and barrel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lock, stock, and barrel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lock, Stock, and Barrel
Brief biographies of forty American Revolutionary leaders and their redcoat foes. Grades 6-9.
Donald J. Sobol, 1965
2
Lock, Stock & Barrel: A Political Biography of Mike Ahern
They could follow Ahern down the "lock, stock and barrel" path, taking over the Fitzgerald agenda and, in making it their own, expiate their past by carving out a future characterised by a cleansing of the political processes. Alternatively, they ...
Paul L. Reynolds, 2002
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To use one's loaf 1984 "Use your loaf, as they say over here." (p. 157) Grimes, Martha. The Dirty Duck. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1984. Lock, stock, and barrel (APP 226; ODEP 775; EAP 415; MP 381) 1911 "Said he paid you lock,  ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
The lock, stock, and barrel are the three parts of a rifle. lowbrow Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar: "My blind date took me to a mud-wrestling match. What a lowbrow evening!" lunatic fringe Derogatory name for the extreme radical members ...
Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James S. Trefil, 2002
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Dictionnaires:
Collins E-G/G-E 1981 deals with the sub-lemma lock, stock and barrel as follows (s.v. lock): he offered me the house — , stock and barrel er bot mir das Haus mit allem Drum und Dran an (inf); they destroyed it — , stock and barrel siehaben es  ...
Franz Josef Hausmann, 1990
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Billboard
Lock, Stock and Barrel is the group. And that's i^Vhow much of themselves thev put m 1 into their music. 8000 *%dvi&:i&'$> % & Distributed by Columbia Records . Personal Representation \^>7 Management Three, Ltd Spotlight Singl ...
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the ...
... in the  Chapter Three: Lock, Stock, and Barrel.
Witold Rybczynski, 2013
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The Little Book of Clichés
Lock, stock and barrel What it means... The entire thing. Where it comes from... The lock, the stock and the barrel make up the three main parts of a musket. The term 'lock', or 'flintlock', pertains to the firing mechanism, the 'stock', is the wooden  ...
Alison Westwood
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Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in ...
... directly importing these rules and institutions.27 Though warning against borrowing 'lock, stock and barrel" from municipal law, Judge McNair was far from doubting that disciplined recourse to that source could be properly and usefully had.
Vaughan Lowe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, 2007
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Interim Protection: A Functional Approach
The problem is therefore not one of importing rules and principles, "lock stock and barrel" but rather of justifying as rules of international law those rules which are ultimately applied. B. Drafting History of Article 38(1) (c)" The League of Nations ...
Jerome B. Elkind, 1981

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lock, stock, and barrel is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Moundsville Man: I was Kurt Russell's Stand-in
Kirk says Hollywood moved into Moundsville, lock, stock, and barrel. "Oh they brought in all the food commissaries from Los Angeles," he noted ... «WTRF, Jul 15»
2
Why Opposition in Congress Is Unlikely to Stop Iran Nuclear Deal
He and Secretary of State John Kerry own this thing lock, stock, and barrel. Accordingly, the president will do everything he can to protect the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
Letter from Langdon: The Fight for Labeling
Smithfield Foods, with labels in practically every U.S. grocers meat case, has been bought lock, stock, and barrel by a Chinese government ... «Daily Yonder, Jul 15»
4
What Was So Dreadful About Last Week?
After the wave elections of 2010 and 2014, twenty-four states opted for Republican government, lock, stock, and barrel. In those states the ... «American Spectator, Jul 15»
5
Why Juno Therapeutics Stock Soared Today
... to plan, Celgene will then have the right to opt-in on other Juno assets, or the biotech may simply decide to buy Juno lock, stock, and barrel. «Motley Fool, Jun 15»

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