shut up
phrasal verbshut up
- (informal) to stop talking (often used as an order as a rude way of telling somebody to stop talking)
- Just shut up and listen!
- Will you tell Mike to shut up?
- When they'd finally shut up, I started again.
shut somebody up
- to make somebody stop talking synonym silence
- She kicked Anne under the table to shut her up.
shut something up
- to close a room, house, etc.
- The summer house was shut up for another year and we went back to the city.
shut somebody/something up (in something)
- to keep somebody/something in a place and prevent them from going anywhere
- They shut him up in jail.
- The children were shut up in their rooms.