cork up

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.

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

     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.

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.

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