Definition of "shut up"

shut up

/ʃʌt ˈʌp/

verb
third-person singular simple present shuts up, present participle shutting up, simple past and past participle shut up
1. (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
2. (transitive) To terminate (a business).
3. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
  Quotations
  "You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."
  1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
4. (ergative, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise.
  Quotations
  This is a quote from the letter: "Went to the Senate yesterday and you should have seen the carrying on they did. I could hardly get them to shut up so I could speak, and they did the same thing after I had finished. Some said the Senate never did carry on so over any president or anybody else."
  1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-442 Former President Truman Discusses Problems Faced During the Potsdam Conference‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
  Shut up and sleep with me / Come on, why don't you sleep with me?
  1995, “Shut Up (And Sleep With Me)”, in Golden Boy, performed by Sin With Sebastian
  He really doesn't know when to shut up and leave it to those at the heart of the negotiations, who fully understand and appreciate all the nuances, to try and hammer out a deal.
  2022 August 10, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Striking a fair balance”, in RAIL, number 963, page 3
5. (transitive, slang, dated) To murder, kill.
  Quotations
  Shepard: Why were they threatening you? Who do they work for?Dr. Chloe Michel: They work for Fist. They wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the quarian.
  2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel
adjective
comparative more shut up, superlative most shut up
1. Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
  Quotations
  She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.
  2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount.
  Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
  1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75.
  Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.
  1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.
interjection
1. (highly impolite, dismissal) Stop talking, crying, etc.
2. (colloquial) I don't believe it!, no way!
  Quotations
  No, I know what home-school is, I'm not retarded! So you've actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!
  2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls (motion picture), spoken by Regina George (Rachel McAdams)
  Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!Jen: It means "personal assistant".Moss: Thank you. Right, OK. What does that actually involve?
  2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

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