"Lock the hubs" is motorist jargon for engaging four wheel drive. Older trucks & SUVs as well as some newer base model vehicles are equipped with manual locking hubs rather than automatic on the fly 4×4. Such vehicles require driver to park, shift transfer case in the cab to 4-HI or 4-LO AND go outside to turn dail on front wheel hubs to "LOCK" before proceeding. Some folks driving in irregular winter conditions will lock the hubs but stay in two wheel drive until they need 4×4. Running locked hubs with 2 wheel drive otherwise increases front tire wear.
Tyler: Hey Tom, I'm planning on going skiing today, how are the roads going up to the mountain?
Tom: Roads are a bit snowy & icy in places but if you lock the hubs, you should be fine!
Tom: Roads are a bit snowy & icy in places but if you lock the hubs, you should be fine!
by Leopold896 May 27, 2023
Get the lock the hubsmug. by gh0811sn September 26, 2022
Get the lock awardmug. A "supplementary" padlock that you irritably add to a staple already containing a padlock, to express your simmering resentment towards someone for preventing you from accessing whatever it is that he has secured with his own padlock; now he himself will not be able to easily access it, either.
Installing a hate lock is an effective but totally-harmless (i.e., it does not actually damage anything; the owner is merely delayed in proceeding until he finds some heavy-duty bolt-cutters) way to exact revenge on someone for locking up something. Extra points if you sarcastically use a pink heart-shaped "love lock" (especially appropriate for uncooperative exes) instead of just an everyday "generic" padlock to "doubly secure" the staple, or if you use a multi-hole lockout-hasp with six additional padlocks attached instead of just a single padlock, so that the original padlocker will have to really toil with da ol' angle-grinder for a lengthy period before gaining access himself. Plus if you're totally snortin'-mad and wish to really humiliate/distress him, you can even stake out the location and watch for him to arrive and begin cutting off the locks, and then you can make an anonymous 911 call so that the cops will come and investigate, since it would logically appear to others that he's trying to break in.
by QuacksO December 17, 2017
Get the hate lockmug. by Harambememesrfun December 11, 2016
Get the This lock polshitmug. Alternative to "off the chain" usually used to described a party
ALT.A virgin who is about to give it up
ALT.A virgin who is about to give it up
by J.C.G June 7, 2007
Get the Poppin' off the lockmug. to be extremely focused particularly in a horror game sense a good example of locking in is when caseoh a popular twitch streamer clutches up in fnaf 4
by caseoh December 23, 2023
Get the lock inmug. by tobyunedog August 16, 2016
Get the minge lockmug.