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13 Απρ 2021 · 13 April 2021. To lock and load literally means to ready a firearm for firing, and the phrase is often used as a command to do so. The exact phrasing of lock and load dates to just prior to the United States’ entry into World War II, but earlier uses of the command reverse the order, making it load and lock, the order of the actions depending ...
5 Οκτ 2024 · lock and load (third-person singular simple present locks and loads, present participle locking and loading, simple past and past participle locked and loaded) ( US , slang ) To prepare one's weapon.
22 Νοε 2017 · Load and (then) lock is the temporal order; but the fixed phrase is locked and loaded (more often as conjoined perfecti participles than infinitives). So which do you want to refer to? The fixed phrase or the temporal order? – John Lawler.
Origin & history. Originated in American English, supposedly as an instructional command to prepare an M1 Garand, the main rifle used during World War II, for battle, though it is disputed if the phrase was actually used this early. It was used in 1949 by John Wayne in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima.
