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The phrase "lock shut" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the action of securing or closing something with a lock or latch. Example: Please remember to lock the door shut before you leave the house.
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The innocent snaps the lock shut.
I hold my breath and fight the lock shut.
My finger's in my mouth again, I put it in my armpit and lock shut.
But I'm obsessed with the user's selfishness and fantasize about slipping chastising notes inside -- or worse, supergluing the lock shut.
There are consignment shops in the mountains, we assure each other as we lean on the rear door of the SUV, willing it to lock shut.
The safer and more humane option is a live trap, which uses bait to lure the groundhog into a cage that has a door that will lock shut.
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Unless it is locked shut, Spartacus may return".
The Paris Review's former office is now locked shut.
Surely the doors on the last-chance saloon had been locked shut this time?
BBC Nepal news service was stopped, and all community radio stations were locked shut.
Five of the other cells on the corridor were locked shut.
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