soap-locked adj.
wearing soap lock n.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Major Jones’s Courtship (1872) 140: Do you think [...] he could recognize his countrymen in the starched up, soap-locked, high-heeled, sickly-looking dandys of the present day? | |
| (con. 1840s) in Old Bowery Days 193: The hair which is smoothed with soap in puffs below the ears, and in large ringlets around them, [...] has given birth, we presume to the word ‘soaplock’. |