Shut Up

Definition: Shut Up

Shut Up

Adjective

1. Closely confined.

Verb

1. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached".

2. Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe".

3. Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Shut Up

Cessation

Have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up; (relinquish).

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Confutation

Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.

End

Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

Relinquishment

Break off, leave off; desist; stop; (cease); hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.

Repose

Take a holiday, shut up shop; lie fallow; (inaction).

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Crosswords: Shut Up

Mister, if you don't shut up I'm gonna kick one hundred percent of your ass! (Fast Times at Ridgemont High; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Oh, shut up. (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

Sit down and shut up, will ya? (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Shut up Greg! (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Percy, shut up and give us a hand. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Shut up your grill (Feelin' So Good; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

And they would not shut up till they were paid. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Shut Up... I'm Crying (1970)

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Books

• Help!! I'm Talking and I Can't Shut Up!! How to Improve Your "Laugh-Life" (reference)

• No, I Won't Shut Up! (reference)

• Shut Up and Sell!: Tested Techniques for Closing the Sale (reference)

• Shut Up and Smile: Supermodels, the Dark Side (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Shut Up & Listen (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shut Up You F**king Baby! [ENHANCED] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Shut Up Kitty Cyber-Based Cove (reference)

• Shut Up You Fucking Baby [ENHANCED] (reference)

• Shut Up (reference)

• Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar [3 Disc Complete Set] [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Barkley's Shut Up and Jam (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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You help me! you! oh shut up and get out. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oh, shut up!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Professor looked annoyed, and shut up his notebook again.

He said they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that some unhappy men must be shut up in the cavity.

If I might make a suggestion - shut up and sit down.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shut up

Expressions using "shut up": hold your jaw! shut up your mouth! ♦ shut up shop ♦ shut up your mouth! ♦ To shut up. Additional references.

Albanian

shët (shush), thur (braid, convolve, enmesh, fence, knit, pleach, spin, splice, stitch, twine, twist, weave), qetësi (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, dispassion, ease, equanimity, imperturbability, keep quiet, languor, mum, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, silence, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, unconcern), mbylle gojën (hold your tongue), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), hesht (be quiet, hush, keep mum, pipe down, silence, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غلق كل شىء, ‏غلق جميع الأبواب, ‏سكت (hold one's tongue, hush, keep mum, quiet, reduce, subside, whist), ‏صمت (clamant, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, keep mum, keep quiet, keep the ball rolling, keeping quiet, muteness, pause, pipe down, quietness, reticence, silence, still, taciturnity), ‏صه (hush, shush, shut your trap, whist), ‏اسكت (shush), ‏أخرس (aphony, dumb, mute, silent, tongue tied). (various references)

Bulgarian 

накарвам да млъкне (put down, quench, shellac, shout down, silence), млъкни (dry up, stow it, turn it up, wrap up), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, stop, turn off), прибирам на сигурно място. (various references)

Czech

zamknout (lock up), uzavřít (block off, cage up, close down, conclude, encase, obturate, shut down, terminate, tie, transact), umlèet (hush, muzzle, scotch, silence, squash, stifle, still), mlè. (various references)

Dutch

wegsluiten (lock up), wegbergen (lock up, put away, stow), opsluiten (gaol, imprison, jail, lock up, put away, stow), insluiten (imply, include, lock up, put away, stow, surround). (various references)

Esperanto

enŝlosi (lock up). (various references)

Finnish

sulkea (bar, block, close, obstruct, shut). (various references)

French

serrer (shaking), se taire, tais-toi, fermer toutes les portes, ferme-la, faire taire (shush, shut smb. up), enfermer (shut in), emprisonner, cloîtrer. (various references)

German

zum schweigen bringen (hush, put down, quiet, quieten, silence, to silence), verschließen (bar, bolt, cap, close, closure, Cork, lock, lock up, occlude, padlock, seal, shut, to closure, to lock, to trap, trap), halt die klappe, halt den mund, einsperren (bolt in, box up, caging, close up, confine, confinement, corral, impound, imprison, jail, lock away, lock in, lock up, Nick, pen, pen in, pen up, put away, put inside, shut in, to corral, to lock up), die klappe halten (keep smb.'s big mouth shut, keep smb.'s mouth shut), den mund halten (keep smb.'s big mouth shut, keep smb.'s mouth shut). (various references)

Greek 

σκάσε. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשתוק (be silent, hold ones peace, hold one's tongue, keep mum), ל�"שתיק (hush, mute, quieten, shush, silence, squelch), לס�'ור במפסק (turn off), סתום את פיך (shut your trap). (various references)

Hungarian

kuss, hallgass (mum, mum's the word!), elzár (close, cut off, dam, debar, lock up, mew, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seclude, shut in, shut off, switch off, to block, to bung, to bung up, to caulk, to choke up, to clog, to confine, to debar, to immure, to list, to mew, to obliterate, to obturate, to occlude, to seclude, to shut away, to shut in, to shut off, to shut out, to strangulate, to turn off, turn off), bezár (close up, coop, encompass, immure, incarcerate, lock, lock on, lock up, shut, shut in, to bolt in, to box in, to bung, to bung up, to cloister, to close, to close up, to enclose, to encompass, to fold up, to immure, to incarcerate, to latch, to mew, to pin, to shut down, to shut in), becsuk (close, lock, mew, shut, shut down, to cage, to close, to lock, to pull to, to put down, to shut, to shut down). (various references)

Italian

star zitto, stai zitto, far stare zitto, chiudere (balance, bar, cancel, close, enclose, end, furl, inclose, lock, put down, restrict, seal, shut, switch off, to close, turn off, turn out, wind up, withdraw). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

閉め切る (to shut up), 閉じ込める (to imprison, to lock up, to shut up), � め切る (to shut up), 押込める (to imprison, to shut up), 押し込める (to imprison, to shut up), 家�'畳む (to shut up one's house), 壅がる (to be plugged up, to be shut up), 壅ぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up), 塞がる (to be plugged up, to be shut up), 塞ぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おし�"める (to imprison, to shut up), しめきる (to shut up), ふさがる (to be plugged up, to be shut up), ふさぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up), いえ�'たたむ (to shut up one's house), とじ�"める (to imprison, to lock up, to shut up). (various references)

Manx

dooney stiagh (close in, confine, confinememt). (various references)

Pig Latin

utshay upay

Portuguese

fazer calar (burke, floor, muzzle, shush), encerrar (accomodate, chamber, close, closet, coffin, contain, embay, encase, enclose, finish, girdle, hoop, imply, impound, incase, inclose, lock, lock in, mure, shut, shut in, terminate, wind up), calar-se (be quiet). (various references)

Romanian

slãbeşte-mã (do me a favor, do me a favour, get along, get along with you, tell that to the marines), taci din gurã (dry up, hold your jaw, shut up your mouth, stow that), taci (be silent, cut it short, hush, keep quiet, lie down, silence), tacã-ţi leoarba (hold your jaw, stash it), ţine-ţi clanţa (hold your gab, stash it). (various references)

Russian 

заткнись, закрыть (close, shut), замолчи, запирать (bar, crib, embay, fasten, lock, lock in, mew up, pawl, pen, shut in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvoriti usta, ćutati (keep quiet, keep silent, observe silence). (various references)

Spanish

obstruir (bar, barricade, beset, block, block up, choke, clog, foul, hinder, impede, interfere, jam, lumber, obstruct, occlude, tie up), guardar bajo llave (shut away), encerrar (box up, carry, comprehend, confine, crate, encase, enclose, enshrine, ground, hem in, immure, inclose, include, lock in, lock up, pen, pen in, pen up, shut, shut away, shut down, shut in), cerrar (block, bring up, close, close down, fasten, jam, lock, lock out, make, obstruct, put down, put over, put through, seal, seal off, set in, shut, shut down, stop, to close, to shut, turn off, zip, zip shut, zip up), callarse (be quiet, dry up, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, hush, keep mum, keep quiet, pipe down, quieten), callar (keep quiet, quench, quieten, unvoice), cállate (be quiet, hush, keep quiet, put a sock in it, shut your trap). (various references)

Swedish

inspärra (cage, confine, immure). (various references)

Turkish

susturmak (blanket, Burke, confute, cut short, gag, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shush, silence, squelch, still, Stow, wither), susmak (be quiet, be tongue-tied, hold one's peace, hush, keep mum, keep quiet, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten, shush, stop speaking), sus (be done, belt up, have done, hush, mum, sh, shush, shut your gob, shut your trap, tush, whist), sesini kesmek (pipe down), kilitlemek (close, fasten, fasten up, fence in, interlock, key, key in, key on, lock, lock up, make fast, turn the key), kes sesini (belt up, hold your jaw), kapatmak (ante up, buy up, cap, clear, close, close down, close up, cloud, cover, enclose, furl, impound, incarcerate, inclose, intern, interrupt, liquidate, obturate, occlude, put up, seal, seal off, shut, shut down, shut off, shut to, switch off, wall), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), kapı ve pencereleri kapatmak, kapa çeneni (dry up, hold your jaw, none of your jaw, shut your gob, shut your mouth), hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in), çeneni tut (hold your jaw, hold your tongue, shut your trap). (various references)

Turkmen 

dymmak (be quiet). (various references)

Ukrainian

ховати (bield, conceal, cover, embowel, entomb, hide, hide away, hide up, inter, lay to rest, put away, secrete, stash, tomb, tuck), замовкнути (caulk, clam, keep quiet, pipe down, sign off), замовкни (ring off, stop), забити (damage, hurt). (various references)

claudo (clausus), includet, includetur, incluserunt, inclusi, inclusit, inclusor, inclusorem, inclusos, occludere, occludo. (various references)

estuier. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: phuts.

-2 letters: huts, phut, push, puts, shut, thus, tups, tush.

-3 letters: hup, hut, pht, pus, put, sup, tup, ups, uts.

-4 letters: sh, uh, up, us, ut.

+1 letter: outpush.

+2 letters: euphuist, thruputs, touchups, upthrust.

+3 letters: euphuists, outpushed, outpushes, upthrusts.

+4 letters: euphuistic, outpunches, outpushing, posthumous.

+5 letters: supersleuth, throughputs, upthrusting.