facelock
noun
facelock is a noun meaning “A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-L-O-C-K, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of facelock is facelocks.
What does facelock mean?
noun
- 1
A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.
- 2
A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the account owner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of facelock
- facelocks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facelock?
Facelock appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does facelock come from?
From face + lock.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).