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cork up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
   • Here's a bottle to cork that up in.
2. (transitive) To block with a cork or something similar.
   • Cork up that pipe.
3. (imperative, intransitive, slang, usually) Shut up; be quiet.
   • Hey! Cork up in there!
4. (transitive) To make (someone) be quiet.
   • You gotta cork him up.
   • Then he put the insulted pipe in his pocket, corked himself up with the immense briar, and sneered at Cripps over the top of it. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 12:
5. (figuratively, transitive) To suppress an emotion or impulse.
   • He's been corking that anger up for years.
6. (intransitive, transitive) To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.
   • I'm sure's been corking up.
   • He must have corked up that bat.

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Synonyms

bottle up · cork