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corker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Crikey, what a corker , thought Jimmy. ▪ For Clough, too, that was the season's first goal, and a corker . ▪ McCain's was an absolute corker . ▪ There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a remarkable or astounding message; "that story was a corker" a machine that is used to put corks in bottles
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who puts corks into bottles. 2 (context informal English) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Corker is an occupational surname , and may refer to: Bob Corker , United States politician, currently serving as the junior US Senator from Tennessee Matt Corker Thomas Corker Stephen A. Corker James Corker John Corker Maurus Corker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, slang, something that "settles" a debate, discussion, conflict, etc.; hence "something astonishing" (1880s). Probably an agent noun from cork (v.) on the notion is of putting a cork in a bottle as an act of finality.
Usage examples of corker.
But Corkers, an eccentric old bachelor, was neither dull nor colourless.
I lets him have it, right, left, right, jist three corkers, beginning with the right hand, shifting to the left, and then with the right hand agin.
You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got to Get You off My Mind,' but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and .
I would fain not describe it save that the untrousered youth was bent over a desk and Edwin’s corker well plunged up his nether parts.