cork up

English

Verb

cork up (third-person singular simple present corks up, present participle corking up, simple past and past participle corked up)

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. (usually imperative, slang, intransitive) Shut up; be quiet.

   Hey! Cork up in there!

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

   You gotta cork him up.

5. (transitive, figurative) To suppress an emotion or impulse.

   He's been corking that anger up for years.

6. (transitive, intransitive, baseball) 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.

Anagrams

• rock up