ALL meanings of shut up
shut up
S s - verb with object shut up to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct. 1
- verb with object shut up to close the doors of (often followed by up): to shut up a shop for the night. 1
- verb with object shut up to close (something) by bringing together or folding its parts: Shut your book. Shut the window! 1
- verb with object shut up to confine; enclose: to shut a bird into a cage. 1
- verb with object shut up to bar; exclude: They shut him from their circle. 1
- verb with object shut up to cause (a factory, school, etc.) to end or suspend operations, services, or business activity: He shut his store, sold his house, and moved away. We're shutting the office for two weeks in June. 1
- verb with object shut up to bolt; bar. 1
- verb without object shut up to become shut or closed; close. 1
- adjective shut up closed; fastened up: a shut door. 1
- adjective shut up Phonetics. checked (def 2). 1
- noun shut up the act or time of shutting or closing. 1
- noun shut up the line where two pieces of welded metal are united. 1
- interjection shut up stop talking 1
- intransitivephrasal verbs shut up stop speaking 1
- intransitivephrasal verbs shut up close premises 1
- transitivephrasal verb shut up close: premises 1
- interjection shut up disbelief: no way! 1
- phrasal verb shut up If someone shuts up or if someone shuts them up, they stop talking. You can say 'shut up' as an impolite way to tell a person to stop talking. 0
- verb shut up to prevent all access to 0
- verb shut up to confine or imprison 0
- verb shut up to cease to talk or make a noise or cause to cease to talk or make a noise: often used in commands 0
- verb shut up (of horses in a race) to cease through exhaustion from maintaining a racing pace 0
- noun shut up to enclose, confine, or imprison 0
- noun shut up to close all the entrances to 0
- noun shut up to stop or cause to stop talking 0
- noun shut up to prevent from speaking or writing freely; silence or censor 0