bung up
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City experts advised clients to sell shares following BP's admission over the weekend that the much vaunted "top kill" attempt to bung up the well had failed.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010
Let it ferment a day or two; then bung up the cask, and you may bottle the beer the next day.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Leslie, Eliza
This done, the whole was launched overboard from the taffrail, the cask floating bung up, with half the pole and the light batten standing perpendicularly above it like a mast.
From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by Staniland, C.J.
Gurney read: "Aberdeen, Wash., June 3, 1916 "Alden P. Ricks "Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York "Joey arrived bung up and bilge free.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
“The thing will be to bung up the hole first,” said Dicky.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
