Meaning of cork up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
   transitive
2. To block with a cork or something similar.
   transitive
3. Shut up; be quiet.
   imperative, intransitive, slang, usually
4. To make (someone) be quiet.
   transitive
5. To suppress an emotion or impulse.
   figuratively, transitive
6. To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.
   intransitive, transitive

Examples

“Here's a bottle to cork that up in.”

“Cork up that pipe.”

“Hey! Cork up in there!”

“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.”

“He's been corking that anger up for years.”

“I'm sure's been corking up.”

“He must have corked up that bat.”

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