shut up
pronunciation
How to pronounce shut up in British English:
UK [ʃʌt ʌp]
How to pronounce shut up in American English:
US [ʃʌt ʌp]
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- Verb:
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- cause to be quiet or not talk
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- Adjective:
- closely confined
Example
- 1. Successful triangulation sometimes means knowing when to shut up .
- 2. Qaddafi never seemed to shut up and libyans were his conscripted audience .
- 3. In effect western groups are being asked to put up or shut up .
- 4. Let 's help him keep the ship of state steady and let 's shut up .
- 5. Everyone needs to know when to shut up and agree and when to speak out .
- 6. You gonna shut up ?
- 7. Shut up your mouth !
- 8. Don 't they realize what they 're doing how much social anxiety they 're causing the rest of us as we struggle to figure out the most polite way to ask them to shut up ?
- 9. A tunisian analyst reckons 120 foreign firms shut up shop cutting 40000 jobs .
- 10. Some of them need to buck up and some of them need to shut up .