shut up! excl.
1. be quiet! stop talking!
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 136: Mahoney, shut up and belay, if you please. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 112: If I get high, / Some watchman spy, / Says, shut up – why make so d----d clatter? | |
| Biglow Papers (1880) 118: Jest shet up. | |
| Paved with Gold 70: Shut up, will you – shut up, now! I tell you, you ain’t a-going to make a gun (thief) of this here young flat. | |
| Pomeroy Wkly Teleg. (OH) 15 May 1/5: Counselor, shet up; I know what I am about. | |
| Broad Arrow Jack 6: ‘Shut up, will you?’ growled Jaundice. | |
| Golden Butterfly I 163: ‘Shut up, Ladds,’ growled Jack; ‘don’t interrupt.’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 6 June 22/2: And while went round the flowing bowl, / How fast the fun, until the sub- / Inspector yelled through the key-hole: / ‘Shut up, or I’ll shut up the Club.’. | |
| Red Badge of Courage (1964) 94: Shet up an’ go on t’ sleep. | |
| Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 86: Shut up, you young idiot. | |
| Out for the Coin 26: ‘Oh! shut up!’ I snapped. | |
| Magnet 27 Aug. 25: Do sit down and shut up, old man! | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 199: What the hell are you driving at? I know. Shut up. | |
| Bone of Contention (1995) 975: Heah! You moufy wimmen! Shet up! | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Hotspur 11 Jan. 51: Shut up, you chump! | |
| Really the Blues 35: Before I had a chance to open my yap, [he] said, ‘Shut up or I’ll bust you in the nose.’. | |
| Battle Cry (1964) 34: Shut up in that line, goddamit! | |
| Blackboard Jungle 42: He shouted, ‘Shaddup, shaddup.’. | |
| Rage in Harlem (1969) 51: Shut up, can’t you? | |
| Much Obliged, Jeeves 165: Shut up, you bleeder. | |
| Villain’s Tale 45: You bloody well shut up, Carol! | |
| Fixx 284: Shut up and listen. | |
| Deathdeal [ebook] . | |
| Curvy Lovebox 23: Shuuut up! Shut the fuuck up! | |
| Guardian Rev. 14 Jan. 6: You want to say ‘Shut up, Ernie’. |
2. a general excl. of disbelief, you can’t fool me! forget it! don’t make me laugh!
| Sl. U. 170: Shut up! Are you serious? No way! Not even! | |
| Street Talk 2. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. 6: shut up – an expression of incredulity, similar to no way. |