shut up

present singular third person shuts up · participle present shutting up · alternative shuddup · alternative shutup · alternative shurrup · alternative shaddup

1. transitiveTo close (a building) so that no one can enter.

   Synonyms: close off, seal up · Antonyms: open, open up, reopen

2. transitiveTo terminate (a business).

   Synonyms: end, terminate, wind up · Antonyms: establish, set up, start, start up

3. transitiveTo put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.

   The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.

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   The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.

   'You know the doctor's ways, sir,' replied Poole, 'and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid.'

   1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 66

   "Oh no, snow!" whined Falcon Housebird to her mistress, Queeny Diamond-Heart. I'll be shut up at your house! At your mercy! With no way to get away!"

   1983 February 5, Andrea Loewenstein, “Snowbound”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 10

   Synonyms: lock up, lock in, seal in, stash, stash away · Antonyms: release

4. derogatoryergativeimperativeoftenOf a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.

   He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.

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   You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?

   She told us earlier that none of what you just said was true, so shut up!

   This is a quote from the letter: "Went to the Senate yesterday and you should have seen the carrying on they did. I could hardly get them to shut up so I could speak, and they did the same thing after I had finished. Some said the Senate never did carry on so over any president or anybody else."

   1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-442 Former President Truman Discusses Problems Faced During the Potsdam Conference, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162

   Shut up and sleep with me / Come on, why don't you sleep with me?

   1995, “Shut Up (And Sleep With Me)”, in Golden Boy, performed by Sin With Sebastian

   Sultan: I am your Sultan! I command you all to shut up!

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 30

   Synonyms: shush, hush, silence, quieten, belt up, button it, button one's lip, back that train up

5. datedslangtransitiveTo murder, kill.

   I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.

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   Shepard: Why were they threatening you? Who do they work for? Dr. Chloe Michel: They work for Fist. They wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the quarian.

   2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel

   Synonyms: annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury

comparative more shut up · superlative most shut up · alternative shuddup · alternative shutup · alternative shurrup · alternative shaddup

1. Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.

   1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166. Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.

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   2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount. She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.

   1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75. Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.

alternative shuddup · alternative shutup · alternative shurrup · alternative shaddup

1. highly impolite; dismissal; highly impolite; dismissalStop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc.

   Shut up! We're sick of your whining!

   Synonyms: shut it, be quiet, shh, shush, silence

2. colloquialI don't believe it!, no way!

   I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome!

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   No, I know what home-school is, I'm not retarded! So you've actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!

   2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls (motion picture), spoken by Regina George (Rachel McAdams)

   Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA. Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA! Jen: It means "personal assistant". Moss: Thank you. Right, OK. What does that actually involve?

   2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

   Synonyms: get out, never, no, no way, stop it, yeah right, you don't say, shut the front door