bung up
Example Sentences
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City experts advised clients to sell shares following BP's admission over the weekend that the much vaunted "top kill" attempt to bung up the well had failed.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010
Then break it up gradually with some of the wine, 'till you have made the two quarts two gallons, stir it well together, and apply to the pipe, and bung up close.
From The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director In Three Parts by Chapman, Thomas
This done, the whole was launched overboard from the taffrail, the cask floating bung up, with half the pole and the light batten standing perpendicularly above it like a mast.
From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by Staniland, C.J.
He was bung up and bilge free—and that's why he's chief kicker now.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
They only bung up the volcano; the best step is to cure the blood, otherwise it will break out somewhere else.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
