Shut up
"Shut up" is a direct command with a meaning very similar to "be quiet"', but which is commonly perceived as a more forceful command to stop making noise or otherwise communicating, such as talking. The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut up your mouth" or "shut your mouth up". Its use is generally considered rude and impolite.
Initial meaning and development
Before the twentieth century, the phrase "shut up" was rarely used as an imperative, and had a different meaning altogether. To say that someone was "shut up" meant that they were locked up, quarantined, or held prisoner. For example, several passages in the King James Version of the Bible instruct that if a priest determines that a person shows certain symptoms of illness, "then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days". This meaning was also used in the sense of closing something, such as a business, and it is also from this use that the longer phrase "shut up your mouth" likely originated.
Shut up (disambiguation)
Shut up is a slang term meaning "be quiet".
Shut Up may also refer to:
See also
Shut Up (Madness song)
"Shut Up" is a pop song written by Suggs and Chris Foreman. It was recorded by British pop/ska band Madness, and was featured on the band's third album 7. It was released as a single on September 11, 1981, spending 10 weeks in the UK Singles Chart. It reached a high position of number 7.
The song tells a story of a criminal who, despite obvious evidence, tries to convince people he is not guilty. Even though the song is called "Shut Up", the two words do not appear in the lyrics at all. However, they were the final words of an additional verse which was part of an early version of the song.
Music video
The promotional video for the single released featured the band dressed as a group of criminals, then later as police officers, while lead singer Suggs remained dressed as a villain. In one sequence, the costumed band gather round as Chris Foreman (in police uniform) plays the song's guitar solo on the "Super Yob" guitar, previously owned by Dave Hill of Slade.
Appearances
Podcasts:
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by D-stroy
Vitamin D
by: D-stroyintroducing the nigga that be boosting
he brought the band he brought the orchestra
the people would like to know.....
[Verse One]
WHY THEY CALL YOU
D-STROY?? cause i'm known for shucking fit up
snuffing the cut funky like the stuff in ya but
enough with corrupt rhyme's and the voice drum's hunted
get confronted for one hundred you bum's fronted
redundant dumb shit you submit made stock's plument
i knot stomach's with def lepoard's arm and drumsets
my lung's swung it lyric's ain't done blunted
or drunk shit which one of you crumb's WANT IT
this natural shits imaculate layback and sit
accurate for battle's quick if you flap ya lip
when i rap you quit acting slick pack and split
or i'll get at you quick like attacking pit's (DOGS)
you'll get thrown from a balcony in london
will be bloody lonesome "IT'S A HOMERUN"
In a zone crumb final score i keep vinyl raw
extra strength tylenol for dinosaur
lion's rah nominee's fond of dee honor me
with novelty bring out the dead and set zombie's free (BRAIN'S)
power's for austin rugged like clothes on orphans
richard dawson survey says this kid is awesome
[Chorus]
Vitamin D.s.t.r.o.y.
take 2 in the morning you'll be saying oh my
get up feeling great for real's no lie
dont knock it till you go try it's alright
[Singing]
so fresh i wanna be
so fresh a hip hop star
so fresh i wanna to rock's
so fresh show's near or far
I love to blow up spot's all day
i need you to rock this way
D.s.t.r.o.y....Oooo.yyyy.
D.s.t.r.o.y...Oooo.yyyy.
Oooyyyyy
[Verse Two]
i do damage daily to scare rebel's duplicator's dare devil's
dead dentals of dudes that are 1 dimentional
melts metal's with snare treble's bass at decibel
higher then air level's on point like a decimal
dynamic devine how im defined
demands dummies decline deactivate design
REWIND ya decomposed and diagnosed as decayed
deemed deadly by d.j.'s your careers delayed
so dangerous so dangerous
down the ditch on the double every stranger dip
no debating with D-stroy's dictatorship
have dude's shook like that final destinations flick
concerto of a desparado
i do damage dialy to my bad i did that befo
decapitate all derelects with dialect that's definite.
my duties dominance over degenerates with deficit
document in my dairy i diehard with drop kick
the undisputed D dastardly's diabolic
don't get it distorted I deflect defects to no degree.
"YO DUN DUN" im done so take to of ya