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means A slim tool shaped to mimic a key, used to manipulate a lock's internal pins or wafers so it opens without the original key.

from A straightforward compound of 'lock' and 'pick' — 'pick' carrying its old sense of probing or picking at something with a pointed tool, the same sense behind 'toothpick' or to 'pick' a scab. The craft itself is ancient (locksmiths and thieves have been racing each other for centuries), but the English word simply names the act: you pick at a lock the way you'd pick at anything stubborn, until it gives.