present participle of cork

(informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up

The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.

(slang) To be quiet; to shut up.

Stoppered with a cork. / (figuratively) Unable to speak; silenced.

(baseball) A bat that has been tampered with by drilling out part of the head of the bat and filling the resulting cavity with a light, compressible material (typically cork) in an attempt to improve the bat's performance (although performance is in fact degraded by corking the bat), rendering it illegal for use in play.

plural of corked bat

A kind of strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with the paper pulp.

A type of evergreen oak tree, Quercus suber, native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.

plural of cork oak