Sekirov Dictionary

lock and load

exclamation 2
verb 2
forms 3

exclamation2

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(US, slang) A command to prepare a weapon for battle.
- Lock and load, boy, lock and load. — 1949
(US, slang) Prepare for an imminent event.

verb2

(US, slang) To prepare one's weapon.
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(US, slang) To prepare for an imminent event.
- It's great to know that city and town governments, all up and down the East Coast, were ready, locked and loaded, to provide bailouts, and this time it was the literal kind. — 2015

forms

locked and loaded · locking and loading · locks and loads

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