lock up

Meaning

To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
To put (something) away in a locked location for safekeeping; (occasionally, chiefly humorously) to sequester (a person) in a similar way.
To close (and often lock) all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
To lock (a door, window, etc.).
To cease responding.
To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
To stop moving; to seize.
To stop moving; to seize.
To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.
To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
To invest in something long term.
To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.
(obsolete) To fasten quoins securely with a mallet and a shooting-stick.

strech

lock-on

sent to the Tower

put in jail

clap in prison

bolt in

put behind bars

lock + up

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