Dictionary

Caps Lock en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kæps lɒk/ (UK)
• (US)
• kăps lŏk (UK)

Meanings

1. (uncountable) An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
   • Please check if Caps Lock is on when typing your password.
2. (countable) A lock key on a computer keyboard that activates this mode.
3. (broadly, informal, uncountable) All caps.
   • I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it? 2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan:

Forms

Translations (25)

ru капсло́к (lock key on a keyboard) · fi caps lock (input mode) · de Feststelltaste (lock key on a keyboard) · is hástafalás (input mode) · pt bloqueio de maiúsculas (lock key on a keyboard) · fi caps lock (lock key on a keyboard) · sv caps lock (lock key on a keyboard) · sv skiftlås (lock key on a keyboard) · hu Caps Lock (lock key on a keyboard) · pt trava-maiúsculas (lock key on a keyboard) · sv versallås (lock key on a keyboard) · is hástafalás (lock key on a keyboard) · da skiftenøgle (lock key on a keyboard) · cmn 大寫鎖定 /大写锁定 (lock key on a keyboard) · ru капсло́к (input mode) · fi lukitusnäppäin (lock key on a keyboard) · fr verrouillage majuscule (lock key on a keyboard) · hu nagybetűbillentyű (lock key on a keyboard) · pt caps lock (lock key on a keyboard) · hu nagybetűzár (lock key on a keyboard) · fi kirjainten lukitusnäppäin (lock key on a keyboard) · fi aakkoslukko (input mode) · ko 눌림쇠 (lock key on a keyboard) · es tecla bloq mayús (lock key on a keyboard) · es Bloq Mayús (lock key on a keyboard)