safety lock

Questions about safety lock

What does safety lock mean?

safety lock means "guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for safety lock?

Close synonyms include safety catch, safety bolt. 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 safety lock a common word?

safety lock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.