corked

Tan: The first bottle we sampled was corked, so I returned it for a replacement instead of just dumping it down the sink.

When I “toured” the loch house, I was inspecting its shelf of corked jugs, wondering where the residents had stashed all their practical kitchen items, when I finally realized that there were no residents.

His attention hits her like a corked Chianti, but she lacks the certainty to declare its bad taste.

Among the artefacts discovered were are a gunpowder barrel, swivel guns, a bottle of corked rum and woodworking tools.

“Why do you look like somebody corked your bat?”