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housekey en · NOUN

Etymology

From house + key.

Meanings

1. A key to a house
   • Lock contends that this evidence was purposefully used by the prosecutor to prove that Lock possessed the housekey which Milano testified she gave to him for entry into Blanton's house. 1991, Jon D. Krahulik, Lock v. State, Indiana Supreme Court, 567 N.E.2d 1155, 1159
   • The effort I exerted on behalf of the housekey had to be paradigmatic. 2003, Michael Brodsky, Detour, →ISBN, page 113:
   • There was no housekey on Robb Johnson's body when it was found 1987, State v. Origer, Iowa Court of Appeals, 418 N.W.2d 368, 372:

Forms

Translations (8)

de Hausschlüssel (key to a house) · ga eochair tí (key to a house) · hu házkulcs (key to a house) · nb husnøkkel (key to a house) · sv husnyckel (key to a house) · ko 집열쇠 (key to a house) · nn husnykel (key to a house) · da husnøgle (key to a house)