cork up
verb1
To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
- Here's a bottle to cork that up in.
2
To block with a cork or something similar.
- Cork up that pipe.
3
Imperative, Slang, Usually Shut up; be quiet.
- Hey! Cork up in there!
4
To make (someone) be quiet.
- You gotta cork him up.
- Then he put the insulted pipe in his pocket, corked himself up with the immense briar, and sneered at Cripps over the top of it.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 12:
5
Figuratively To suppress an emotion or impulse.
- He's been corking that anger up for years.
6
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.
- I'm sure's been corking up.
- He must have corked up that bat.