English

Alternative forms

• shuddup (eye dialect)
• shut-up
• shutup

Verb

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1. (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
2. (transitive) To terminate (a business).
3. (transitive) To enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room or other place so that it cannot leave.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:

     "You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."

4. (transitive) To put (an object) in a secure enclosed place.
5. (ergative) Of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise.

   You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music — would you mind shutting up?

   He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.

6. (intransitive, colloquial, used only in the imperative) I don't believe it!, no way!

   "I got accepted to Yale!" / "Shut up, really? That's awesome!"

Usage notes

• When used in the imperative to tell someone to be quiet or to stop making a noise:
  • This expression is considered forceful or impolite. A neutral alternative is "be quiet".
  • Shut the **** up (a stronger version of shut up) may be shortened to **** up. It is not shortened in grammatical moods other than the imperative.

Synonyms

• (close (a building)): close off, seal up
• (terminate (a business)): end, terminate, wind up
• (enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room so that it cannot leave): lock in, seal in
• (put (an object) in a secure enclosed place): lock up, stash, stash away
• (to stop (a person) from talking or (a person or thing) making noise): hush, quieten, shush, silence
• (to stop talking or making noise): be quiet, be silent, fall silent, hush, quieten down, shush; (in the imperative): be quiet!, can it!, hush!, put a sock in it!, quiet!, sh!, shush!, shut it!, shut your face! (impolite), shaddap, silence!, st!, STFU; see also Wikisaurus:stop talking
• (I don't believe it): get out!, never!, no!, no way!, yeah right!, you don't say!

Antonyms

• (close (a building)): open, open up, reopen
• (terminate (a business)): establish, set up, start, start up
• (enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room so that it cannot leave): release

Derived terms

• put up or shut up
• shaddup
• shut it

Translations

Adjective

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

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Pushtu