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cork up
verb as in gag
verb as in hold
Strong matches
verb as in mute
verb as in quash
Example Sentences
He added: "10 p.m.-er has a cork up her nose at this. I don't know what the problem is."
I corked up the Fundador bottle and gave it to the bartender.
“Cork” was used to evoke “the real agony of the unprepared student,” who, when called on in class, “sitteth and openeth not his mouth, even as a bottle that is corked up.”
They cork up the snuff in their nostrils with a hollowed-out bit of wood, till the tears run down their cheeks.
The absence of a sympathetic, compatriotic, intelligent spirit, like yours, is my greatest deprivation here, and everything is corked up.'
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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