locker room

See also: lockerroom and locker-room

English

A locker room

Alternative forms

• lockerroom
• locker-room

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːm

• Audio (US):

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Etymology 1

Noun

locker room (plural locker rooms)

1. (US, Canada) A room attached to an athletic, recreational, or workplace facility, filled with lockers for storage of clothing and equipment; clothes are generally changed there.

   Synonyms: changing room, dressing room

   We changed into our swimsuits in the locker room next to the pool.

Derived terms

• locker room humor
• locker room talk

 

Translations

locker room — see changing room

Adjective

locker room (not comparable)

1. (informal) Characteristic of conversations held in locker rooms; that is boastful, juvenile, or explicitly sexual.

   The others tired of Frank's habitual locker-room boasting about various women he had "scored" with

   • 2018 January 22, Melody Chiu, Emily V. Gordon, “How Kumail Nanjiani Found the 'Perfect' Wife (and More!)”, in People:

     “I think of how scary it was for me starting comedy in Chicago, and then how much scarier it would have been if I was a woman starting comedy there because it really was such a boys’ club,” he says. “It was very aggressive. It was very locker room.

   • 2018 January 30, Neil Best, “Director explains how ‘The Two Bills’ documentary with Parcells and Belichick came together”, in Newsday (New York):

     It’s in a very locker room, busting-my-stones sort of way.

See also

• bathroom
• bathhouse
• changing room
• dressing room
• communal shower

Etymology 2

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Noun

locker room (uncountable)

1. (slang) inhalants

Further reading

• “locker room”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “locker room”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “locker room”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “locker room”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.