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corked up

corked up adjective: stoppered with a cork.

Adjective

corked up (not comparable)

  1. Stoppered with a cork.
  2. (figuratively) Unable to speak; silenced.
    • He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82

Questions about corked up

What does corked up mean?
Corked up means stoppered with a cork.
What part of speech is corked up?
Corked up is an adjective.

Words near corked up in the dictionary

  1. corked bat
  2. corked bats
  3. corked it
  4. corked off
  5. corked out
  6. corked up
  7. corker
  8. Corkerhill
  9. Corkern
  10. Corkerns
  11. corkers

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