The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word JAILS , but the solution may also be SLAMMRS which is one of the most recent solution (2009 in Wall Street Journal).
Lockups crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| JAILS | 40 % | 5 |
| PRISONS | 20 % | 7 |
| SLAMMRS | 20 % | 7 |
| CALABOOSES | 20 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lockups
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- locking
- blockades
- blockages
- blocks
- bottlenecks
- closures
- combination
- combined
- combo
- crashes
- deadlocks
- embargoes
Crossword Answer definitions
JAILS noun- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- Confinement in a jail.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- To imprison.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result JAILS
- Cages for some birds?
- Holding cells
- Cans
- Slammers
- Establishments with bars
- Locks up
- Lockups
- Places for certain birds?
- Puts behind bars
- Puts away
More clues leading to the result PRISONS
- Attica and San Quentin
- Sing Sing et al.
- Places where cell phones are prohibited?
- Atlanta, Leavenworth, etc.
- Bastilles.
- Lockups.
- Dartmoor and Old Bailey.
- Folsom et al.
- Attica and Newgate
- Sites of many bars