Long kiss / Technique for hooking a fish

Long kiss / Technique for hooking a fish

(business, economics) An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike.

To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked. / (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.

(idiomatic) To come into conflict.

The technique of twisting the ankle of someone already down, in order to keep them down, under the painful threat of an injury to their ankle that will mar them for life.

A lock, typically on a door in a bank vault, that cannot be unlocked before a specified time.

plural of lock in

(astronomy) Subject to tidal locking.

A lock situated between an enclosed basin or a canal and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide