cork up

present singular third person corks up · participle present corking up · participle past corked up · past corked up

1. transitiveTo enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.

   Here's a bottle to cork that up in.

   Synonyms: cork

2. transitiveTo block with a cork or something similar.

   Cork up that pipe.

3. imperativeintransitiveslangusuallyShut up; be quiet.

   Hey! Cork up in there!

4. transitiveTo make (someone) be quiet.

   You gotta cork him up.

   1 more example

   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.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 12

5. figurativelytransitiveTo suppress an emotion or impulse.

   He's been corking that anger up for years.

   Synonyms: bottle up

6. intransitivetransitiveball gamesTo put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.

   I'm sure's been corking up.

   1 more example

   He must have corked up that bat.