corked

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔːkt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kt

Verb

corked

1. simple past and past participle of cork

Adjective

corked (comparative more corked, superlative most corked)

1. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 554:

     Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.

2. Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.

   Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?

3. Blackened by burnt cork.

   the corked faces of the outlaws

Derived terms

• corked bat
• corked up

See also

• cork taint

Anagrams

• Docker, docker, ockerd, redock, rocked