Meaning of pop one's cork | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become explosively angry.
   idiomatic
2. To suddenly behave irrationally; to go crazy.
   idiomatic
3. To ejaculate.
   idiomatic, vulgar

Examples

“They even decided to give him something they never gave Burton: an honorary Oscar. When O'Toole got wind of it, though, he popped his cork like a bottle of bubbly, and, at age 70, reminded the academy that he was "still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright."”

“Mr. Reubens, as a rock concert promoter, gets to pop his cork, spewing expletives with a patently cathartic force.”

“And there was Conductor Reyes, who was perfectly ordinary until one day he popped his cork and started explaining delays by announcing Command Center's telephone number and urging riders to phone for themselves.”

“I’m sorry to say that even the usually reliable David Denby of The New Yorker seems to have popped his cork, proclaiming it ‘by far the strongest American film of the year.’”

“Everything I’ve read says the shooter was a white supremacist who popped his cork.”

“[S]he had given him a perfunctory jerkoff, not even taking his dick out of his pants, laughing as he popped his cork within moments.”

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