Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that corks bottles, for example.
- n. Slang A remarkable or astounding person or thing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which corks.
- n. In manufacturing, an instrument to stretch women's shoes.
- n. An unanswerable fact or argument; that which makes further discussion or action unnecessary or impossible; a settler.
- n. A successful examination; a “rush.”
Wiktionary
- n. One who puts corks into bottles.
- n. informal A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person
- n. a machine that is used to put corks in bottles
Examples
“A corker is something very special … almost one of a kind.”
Twilight Lexicon » On The Red Carpet: Interviews With Booboo Stewart and Charlie Bewley
“The corker was a woman who, in an initial interview, said she had never been sexually abused.”
“Accordingly, when put upon another boy's back to be horsed, as it was termed, he slipped a large pin, called a corker, in his mouth, and on receiving the first blow stuck it into the neck of the boy who carried him.”
“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”
“Cowen & Co. analyst Cai von Rumohr says Boeing is selling itself short with a too-low guidance after a "corker" of a first quarter.”
“Sollicker Somewhat equivalent Something excessive. to "corker”
“He told her that she was a "corker," a "dream," and "one sweet song," and that the picture did not do her justice.”
“Hazelton and Dan Dalzell, sure that Dick had a "corker" of a scheme, grinned as happily as though they had already seen it put through with a rush.”
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving
“Nick Denton promised a story of the leak would publish later that night, and that it would be a real "corker" (blimey!).”
“The story will is a "corker" (a good story), tweeted the following: iPhone update.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corker’.
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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cricket
everything cricket
batswomen, batswoman, batsmen, batsman, backlift, bail, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
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The Best of British Slang
From the Dictionary of British Slang: Knickers in a Twist, by Jonathan Bernstein
lager lout, chiseler, play truant, wangle, belter, corker, butter up, diamond geezer, full of beans, jammy, collywobbles, a good seeing to and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for corker.
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
oroboros "What a corker of an evening! A real lulu!" Jan 30, 2007