shut up

== English == === Alternative forms === shuddup, shutup, shurrup, shaddup === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ʃʌt ʌp/, [ʃʌt ʌp], [ʃʌt̚ ʌp] (US) IPA(key): /ʃʌt ʌp/, [ʃʌɾʌp] (Yorkshire) IPA(key): /ʃʊɹʊp/, [ʃʊɹʊp] === Verb === shut up (third-person singular simple present shuts up, present participle shutting up, simple past and past participle shut up) (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter. Synonyms: close off, seal up Antonyms: open, open up, reopen (transitive) To terminate (a business). Synonyms: end, terminate, wind up Antonyms: establish, set up, start, start up (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container. Synonyms: lock up, lock in, seal in, (of objects) stash, (of objects) stash away Antonym: release (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise. Synonyms: shush, hush, (transitive) silence, quieten (transitive, slang, dated) To murder, kill. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kill ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === shut up (comparative more shut up, superlative most shut up) Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter. 2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount. 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. 1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75. Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing. 1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166. Beaudeck is a very shut-up place. === Interjection === shut up (highly impolite, dismissal) Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc. Synonyms: shut it, be quiet, shh, shush, silence; see also Thesaurus:stop talking (colloquial) I don't believe it!, no way! Synonyms: get out, never, no, no way, stop it, yeah right, you don't say, shut the front door, I'll go to the foot of the stairs 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6: 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? ==== Usage notes ==== When used to mean stop talking, this expression is rude, forceful and impolite. A neutral alternative is be quiet. When used as an expression of disbelief, it is not usually taken as offensive. The derived phrase shut the fuck up may rarely be shortened to fuck up. ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: シャラップ ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Pushtu