corked
adjUK /kɔːkt/
1
Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
- Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 554:
2
Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
- Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
3
Blackened by burnt cork.
- the corked faces of the outlaws
- Derived terms
- corked bat, corked up
- Related terms
- cork taint