Usually means: Engine water ingestion prevents movement.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hydrolock)

noun:  Abbreviation of hydrostatic lock. (a condition affecting a compression device that compresses gases, having been infiltrated by an unsustainable amount of incompressible liquid, or, being unable to further compress gases, locking the device in place) [(mechanical engineering, usually uncountable) A condition that arises when a device which compresses gases seizes up because of the infiltration of liquid, which prevents further compression.]
verb:  Abbreviation of hydrostatic lock. (to enter a hydrolock) [To seize up because liquid has infiltrated a mechanism for compressing gasses.]

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