n. & v.
--n.
1. a person or thing that shuts.
2 a each of a pair or set of panels fixed inside or outside a window for security or privacy or to keep the light in or out. b a structure of slats on rollers used for the same purpose.
3 a device that exposes the film in a photographic camera.
4 Mus. the blind of a swell-box in an organ used for controlling the sound-level.
--v.tr.
1. put up the shutters of.
2 provide with shutters.
Phrases and idioms:
put up the shutters
1. cease business for the day.
2 cease business etc. permanently.
Derivatives:
shutterless adj.