"cork it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-cork it.ogg [Australia] Forms: corks it [present, singular, third-person], corking it [participle, present], corked it [participle, past], corked it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cork it (third-person singular simple present corks it, present participle corking it, simple past and past participle corked it)
  1. (slang) To be quiet; to shut up. Tags: slang Synonyms: put a cork in it, put a sock in it, zip it Translations (slang: to be quiet): pitää turpansa kiinni (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-cork_it-en-verb-kQ7MWfj~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for cork it meaning in English (1.5kB)

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