Meanings
verbcork off (third-person singular simple present corks off, present participle corking off, simple past and past participle corked off)
present singular third person corks off · participle present corking off · participle past corked off · past corked off
- USslangTo fall asleep.
‘I'm going to sleep on the major's bed,’ Bonello said. ‘I'm going to sleep where the old man corks off.’
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 183
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