Shut up - definition, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈʃət ʌp|
Brit.  |ʃʌt ʌp|

verb

- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent (syn: button up, close up)
The children shut up when their father approached
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape (syn: lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, put away)
- cause to be quiet or not talk (syn: hush, hush up, quieten, silence, still)

adjective

- closely confined (syn: pent)

Extra examples

...you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up...

...nothing I said would shut them up...

Tell him it's his own fault; that should shut him up.

The children shut up when their father approached

...my seat companion was a chatterbox who never once shut up during the whole trip...

This room has been closely shut up.

I wish everyone would shut up, so that we could hear ourselves think.

They shut up the lesson-books and lost her place.

The confidential documents are kept shut up in a strongbox.

That poor dog has been shut up in the house all day while the owners were out.

Do us a favour, Mike, and shut up!

For God's sake, shut up!

'Shut up,' Boris said harshly.

Just shut up, Tom. I can't hear myself think.

Look, just shut up for a minute!

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