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cork up

verb
  1. To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork. (transitive) · Here's a bottle to cork that up in.
  2. To block with a cork or something similar. (transitive) · Cork up that pipe.
  3. Shut up; be quiet. (intransitive, slang) · Hey! Cork up in there!
  4. To make (someone) be quiet. (transitive) · You gotta cork him up.
  5. To suppress an emotion or impulse. (figuratively, transitive) · He's been corking that anger up for years.
  6. To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it. (intransitive, transitive) · I'm sure's been corking up.· He must have corked up that bat.
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