Home › Words › U › upshutupshutupshut · verb — to shut up; to close.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom up- + shut.verbTo shut up; to close.e.g.“Now in due order all again Into its place he puts; The Sanctuary arranges; then Withdraws, and that upshuts.” — 1854, Friedrich Schiller, Montagu Montagu, The Song of the Bell: And Other Poems, page 133:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).