Phrase Hound found 42 phrases and 33 compound words that contain shut. The most common are listed below. Open shut in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 42
- shut upTo close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- shut downTo close, terminate, or end.
- shut outNonstandard spelling of shutout: Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
- shut-offAlternative spelling of shutoff, often used attributively.
- shut the doorTo refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.
- shut the boxA dice game in which players attempt to cover up a series of visible numbers. On each throw, the player can cover any combination of open numbers that add up to the total number of dots showing on the dice.
- cut-and-shutA car that has been welded together from vehicles previously involved in accidents.
- open-and-shutSimple and obvious; easily decided.
- shut the front doorshut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)
- shut up shopTo close up shop; to end a business activity.
- shut the fridgeshut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)
- shut-eyeSleep.
- cold-shutClosed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; said of a forging or casting.
- keep one's mouth shutTo keep a secret; to refrain from speaking indiscreetly or carelessly; broadly, to refrain from speaking altogether.
- buss-up-shutA kind of unleavened bread resembling a paratha.
- shut up and take my moneySaid about something that the speaker wants to buy immediately.
- shut awayTo isolate (someone) in a closed-off area or room.
- wide shutDeliberately closed (off). (figurative) Wilfully closed-minded; unwilling to see the truth.
- put up or shut upTo desist from saying something unless one is able to prove it; to act in a manner that makes further talk unnecessary.
- shut-insplural of shut-in: Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.
- shut one's eyesTo ignore or deliberately overlook.
- shut one's eyes and think of EnglandAlternative form of close one's eyes and think of England: to accept unwanted sex due to social pressures.
- shut one's faceTo stop talking; to be quiet.
- shut one's gobTo stop talking; to be quiet.
- shut one's mouthTo stop talking; to be quiet.
Compound words 33
- shuttleA tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- shutterOne who shuts or closes something.
- cockshutA kind of net for catching woodcock.
- reshutTo shut again.
- forshutTo shut off or out; preclude; prohibit.
- shuttableCapable of being shut.
- shutwingAny of various species of dragonfly of the genus Cordulephya, endemic to eastern Australia.
- undershutClosed from below.
- shuttyShut up.
- outshutTo shut out.