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locker room en · ADJ · etymology 1

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1. (informal, not-comparable) Characteristic of conversations held in locker rooms; that is boastful, juvenile, or explicitly sexual.
   • “I think of how scary it was for me starting comedy in Chicago, and then how much scarier it would have been if I was a woman starting comedy there because it really was such a boys’ club,” he says. “It was very aggressive. It was very locker room. 2018 January 22, Melody Chiu, Emily V. Gordon, “How Kumail Nanjiani Found the 'Perfect' Wife (and More!)”, in People:
   • It’s in a very locker room, busting-my-stones sort of way. 2018 January 30, Neil Best, “Director explains how ‘The Two Bills’ documentary with Parcells and Belichick came together”, in Newsday (New York):
   • The others tired of Frank's habitual locker-room boasting about various women he had "scored" with

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Relateds

bathhouse · changing room · communal shower · bathroom · dressing room

locker room en · NOUN · etymology 1

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1. (Canada, US) A room attached to an athletic, recreational, or workplace facility, filled with lockers for storage of clothing and equipment; clothes are generally changed there.
   • We changed into our swimsuits in the locker room next to the pool.

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Deriveds

locker room humor · locker room talk

Synonyms

changing room · dressing room

locker room en · NOUN · etymology 2

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1. (slang, uncountable) inhalants

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