CORK


Meaning of CORK in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

champagne

The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed.

Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks .

No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby.

At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping.

The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.

And the champagne corks were popping as Kirkby's latest housing co-operative celebrated its success.

Yet no one is popping champagne corks .

■ VERB

pop

Simultaneous popping of corks and champagne all round.

Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks .

Yet no one is popping champagne corks .

He came back, enthusiastically popped the cork and poured two glasses of the fizzy wine.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Announcement of the awards set champagne corks popping.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He was twiddling a piece of cork and sucking on his empty pipe.

Hebron is a cork in the bottle.

In 1939, leather was scarce so Magli introduced cork , fabric, velvet, fiber and wood to his shoes.

In the living room, a cork or two popped, releasing a stinging whistle of pressure into the air.

Once you take the cork out, hopefully other things will start to flow.

Open the wine, lucky you've got a vacuum cork .

Out with the corks of the wine, assuming you haven't done so already, and empty it into a saucepan.

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