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corkers

corkers is the plural of corker.

Meaning of corker

Noun

corker (plural corkers)

  1. One who puts corks into bottles.
    • Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.1857, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in The Confidence-Man
  2. (informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
    • Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.1889, Mark Twain, chapter XVI, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, page 124
    Synonyms:
    whopper

See all 3 meanings of corker

Proper noun capitalized: Corkers

Corkers

  1. (plural) plural of Corker

Questions about corkers

What is corkers the plural of?
Corkers is the plural of corker.
What part of speech is corkers?
Corkers is a proper noun.

Words near corkers in the dictionary

  1. corked up
  2. corker
  3. Corkerhill
  4. Corkern
  5. Corkerns
  6. corkers
  7. Corkery
  8. Corkerys
  9. Corkickle
  10. corkie
  11. corkier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corkers (page history and authors); Corkers (page history and authors); corker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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