ignition interlock

1. 1.

   a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting

   “car theives know how to bypass the ignition interlock”

   Synonymsinterlock

   Broaderdevice

Questions about ignition interlock

What does ignition interlock mean?

ignition interlock means "a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting".

What is another word for ignition interlock?

Close synonyms include interlock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ignition interlock a common word?

ignition interlock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.