loc

Clipping of dreadlock.

• 'loc

loc (plural locs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
   • 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette‎^[1]:

     Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.

   • 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

     Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

• loc'd

loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)

1. (informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.
   • 1996, Hype Hair, page 42:

     Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

1. (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōk, IPA^(key): /ləʊk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

1. (US, slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).

• loced out

• “loc adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• -col-, CLO, COL, Clo, Col., OCL, OLC, col, col-, col.

From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (“teardrop”).^[1]

loc m (plural loce, definite locja, definite plural locet)

1. dear, darling

• lot
• loke
• loçkë

• locu

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location
2. land, soil, earth
3. country, region

• (land, earth, soil): tsarã, pimintu
• (region, country): nai, stat, duvleti, vãsilii

From Middle Irish loc (“hindrance”), from Middle English lok.

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɔk/

loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)

1. (obsolete) hindrance

loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)

1. Ulster form of loic (“to shirk, flinch”)

• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 82

From Latin locus.

loc n

1. place, location

From Latin locus.^[1]

loc n (plural locur or loață)

1. place, location

• Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

From Proto-West Germanic *lok (“shutter, lock”).

• IPA^(key): /lok/

loc n

1. lock
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilus, Bishop"

     Uton belucan þas circan and loc geinseglian and ġe ealle siðþan waciað þreo niht wuniġende on gebedum and...

     Let us lock up this church, and seal the lock and do ye all afterward watch three nights, continuing in prayer and...'

2. that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
3. an enclosed space, enclosure, fold

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: lok, loc, lock, loke
  • English: lock
  • Scots: lock
  • Yola: lauckès (plural)
• → Anglo-Norman: loc
  • ⇒ Anglo-Norman: loquet
    • Middle French: loquet
      • French: loquet
        • → English: locket
        • → Italian: lucchetto
        • → Lombard: lochet
        • → Portuguese: aloquete, loquete
    • → Middle English: locket
      • English: locket

• IPA^(key): /loːk/

lōc

1. alternative form of lōca

Borrowed from Old English loc

loc oblique singular, m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural loc)

1. lock
   • (Can we date this quote?), La Vie de St Thomas

     Mes a cel ore esteit a un grant loc fermee

     But at this hour, it was closed with a big lock

• loquet

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (loc)
• loc on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.

• IPA^(key): [l͈oɡ]

loc m

1. place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^d23

     Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.

     Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

• locdatu

• Irish: log

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “loc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• loic
• luec

From Latin locus.

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)

1. place

• Occitan: lòc, luec, luòc

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 392

Inherited from Latin locus.

• IPA^(key): /lok/

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• Rhymes: -ok

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location
2. stead

• deloc
• înlocui
• la loc
• lăsa loc de bună ziua
• lua loc

• local
• localitate
• locație

• locui

• “loc”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

Borrowed from English lock.

loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)

1. lock (on a canal)

loc

1. soft mutation of lloc (“enclosure, pen”)