What does clam up mean?

clam up means "refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent".

What is another word for clam up?

Close synonyms include close up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clam up a common word?

clam up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

clam up — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
“The children shut up when their father approached”
Synonymsclose up dummy up shut up belt up button up be quiet keep mum

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What does clam up mean?: clam up means "refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent".

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