soft lock

"Cari," he murmured into her hair, feeling the soft locks move over his face,"where are the rest of the knots?

Before he had left, Tommy had gone over to the pile of leather goods and found a soft locking leather collar.

Deadlock is a common problem in multiprocessing where many processes share a specific type of mutually exclusive resource known as a software lock or soft lock.

Kathy shivered from the heat generated by his biting and sucking, and ran a hand up to his cheek, and then to his hair, running her fingers through his thick but soft locks.