godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
Hokkaido dialect verb meaning to lock a door or secure something with a key. Related to the noun じょっぴん (key).
See also: じょっぴん
出かける前にちゃんとじょっぴんかったか？
Did you lock up properly before going out?
じょっぴん is the noun meaning 'key' or 'lock'; じょっぴんかる is the verb meaning 'to lock'.
Standard Japanese equivalent meaning 'to lock'. じょっぴんかる is a dialectal variant used in Hokkaido.
Derived from the Hokkaido dialect noun じょっぴん (key), which itself may be a corruption of 錠前 (じょうまえ, lock) or related to じょう (lock). The verb じょっぴんかる is formed by adding the verb suffix かる to the noun.