corker
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun One who or that which corks.
- noun In manufacturing, an instrument to stretch women's shoes.
- noun An unanswerable fact or argument; that which makes further discussion or action unnecessary or impossible; a settler.
- noun A successful examination; a 'rush.'
Examples
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There's hardly a big-sky stereotype he doesn't trick out with new tricks - wait till you catch the man-with-no-name corker he's come up with - but he and co-screenwriters John Logan and James Ward Byrkit are cribbing their plot points not just from classic Westerns but from the likes of Chinatown, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Apocalypse Now.
Bob Mondello, 'Ride 'Em, Chameleon! 'Rango' A Wild, Wacky Western,' NPR, March 3, 2011
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He told her that she was a 'corker,' a 'dream,' and 'one sweet song,' and that the picture did not do her justice.
Note
'Corker' is also slang for 'a remarkable or astounding person or thing.'
