corked up

adj — 2 senses

corked up

adj

1

Stoppered with a cork.

2

Figuratively Unable to speak; silenced.

He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:

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