Home › Words › F › facelockfacelockfacelock means A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.EtymologyFrom face + lock.nounA type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.e.g.“He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.” — 1995, Gordon D. Shirreffs, The Ghost Dancers, →ISBN, page 146:A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the account owner.e.g.“This contrast can be used as the basis for a personalised ‘facelock’, in which authentication succeeds or fails based on image-invariant recognition of faces that are familiar to the account holder.” — 2014 June 24, Rob Jenkins, Jane L. McLachlan, Karen Renaud, “Facelock: familiarity-based graphical authentication”, in PeerJ:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).