Usually means: Locking mechanism, stronger than latch.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. deadbolt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. deadbolt: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deadbolt: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deadbolt, deadbolt: Wordnik
  5. deadbolt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deadbolt: Wiktionary
  7. deadbolt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. deadbolt: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. deadbolt: Dictionary.com
  10. Deadbolt (band), Deadbolt (film), Deadbolt (video game), Deadbolt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. deadbolt: Rhymezone
  12. deadbolt: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deadbolt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. deadbolt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. deadbolt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadbolt: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deadbolt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deadbolt)

noun:  The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged.
noun:  A kind of lock in which the bolt (moving portion) is held in position by the cylinder rather than by a spring and so cannot be retracted except by turning the cylinder.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten or secure with a deadbolt.

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