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US
/ˈkɔɹkɝ/
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[ UK /kˈɔːkɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːkɐ/ ]
NOUN
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(dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person
that story was a corker - a machine that is used to put corks in bottles
How To Use corker In A Sentence
- The CD that comes with this week's NME is a bit of a corker, actually.
- True to High Fidelity rules, Lullaby of Birdland opens with a corker: an on-air medley of Take the A Train and Caravan by Duke Ellington.
- Accordingly, when put upon another boy's back to be horsed, as it was termed, he slipped a large pin, called a corker, in his mouth, and on receiving the first blow stuck it into the neck of the boy who carried him. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
- Screen legends have always taken the inadvertent production of the odd crashing B-movie in their stride and this one's an absolute corker. Times, Sunday Times
- As Democrats push for a single Republican vote needed to give the White House a filibuster-proof Sen.te majority on financial regulation legislation, Tennessee Sen. Robert Corker remains at or near the top of their "persuadable" list. NPR Topics: News
- We got our copy of this year's yesterday and it's a corker.
- He told her that she was a "corker," a "dream," and "one sweet song," and that the picture did not do her justice. We Can't Have Everything
- I might be just a little biased, but this album is an absolute corker, chocka full of great songs that brilliantly document Melissa's move from New York to rural Kansas.
- All right, so their influences are truly opaque: The Beatles, Beach Boys and Oasis, but they have written some corkers and given a new twist to bubblegum pop.
- Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) also complained that the effort to garner key votes had allowed a handful of senators to "hijack" the process over a few parochial issues. House-Senate panel works to move financial regulation bill to Obama