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Cork up

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork. transitive

    "Here's a bottle to cork that up in."

  2. 2
    close a bottle with a cork wordnet
  3. 3
    To block with a cork or something similar. transitive

    "Cork up that pipe."

  4. 4
    Shut up; be quiet. imperative, intransitive, slang, usually

    "Hey! Cork up in there!"

  5. 5
    To make (someone) be quiet. transitive

    "You gotta cork him up."

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  1. 6
    To suppress an emotion or impulse. figuratively, transitive

    "He's been corking that anger up for years."

  2. 7
    To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it. intransitive, transitive

    "I'm sure's been corking up."

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