Word.ws English Dictionary

shuts one's gob

shuts one's gob is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shut one's gob.

Meaning of shut one's gob

Verb

shut one's gob (third-person singular simple present shuts one's gob, present participle shutting one's gob, simple past and past participle shut one's gob)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, idiomatic) To stop talking; to be quiet.
    • Why don't you just shut your gob? I'm tired of listening to you.

Questions about shuts one's gob

What is shuts one's gob the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shuts one's gob is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shut one's gob.

Words near shuts one's gob in the dictionary

  1. shuts of
  2. shuts off
  3. shuts one's eyes
  4. shuts one's eyes and thinks of England
  5. shuts one's face
  6. shuts one's gob
  7. shuts one's head
  8. shuts one's mouth
  9. shuts one's trap
  10. shuts out
  11. shuts the stable door after the horse has bolted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shuts one's gob (page history and authors); shut one's gob (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shuts one's gob.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shuts_one%27s_gob. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.