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Locked vs Tocked - What's the difference?

locked | tocked |

As verbs the difference between locked and tocked

is that locked is past tense of lock while tocked is past tense of tock.

As an adjective locked

is of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).

locked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lock)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).
  • (Dublin) Very drunk.A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan , p.142.

    • tocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tock)

    • tock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

    • Derived terms

    * tick-tock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce such a sound.
  • * Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann
    • The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
  • * 1967 , William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin
    • The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.