shut-up

See also: shutup and shut up

English

Verb

shut-up (third-person singular simple present shuts-up, present participle shutting-up, simple past and past participle shut-up)

1. Misspelling of shut up.
   • #3 Shades of Gray: Cerberus Versus Pandora. Kristie Lynn Higgins.

     I want them to shut-up and lisen to me.

   • 2015. OK2BG. Jack Dunsmooor.

     ... and then Mike volley back with an F-bomb and a fortified attitude, "'... and just shut-up', and then I returned fire with, 'no, you shut-up!', to which he replied, 'you shut-up' so belligerently that he lost his finger-hold and nearly fell off the wall he was balanced upon.

   • 2014. Bahram's Shorts. Barry Ghabaei.

     ... and I can take a hint when people don't want me to talk. So I shut-up.

Adjective

shut-up (comparative more shut-up, superlative most shut-up)

1. Alternative spelling of shut up
   • 1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.

     Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.

Anagrams

• Pushtu