1
: one that corks containers (such as bottles)
2
: one that is excellent or remarkable
Examples of corker in a Sentence
Last week's episode was good, but this one is a real corker!
that last race was a real corker!
Recent Examples on the Web
The second number of the show was, if not as much of a surprise, equally a corker… and a thematically appropriate choice for the followup choice in the set.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Based on a script by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, Ransom is a corker of a paranoid, father’s-worst-nightmare thriller in which Gibson plays Tom, a one-percenter who discovers that his son has been kidnapped.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Anyway, Breville doles out sales sparingly, and this little corker is $50 off for the spring sale.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The final scene — a real corker — was filmed at City Hall.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Understatement has its merits, but so too does a bolt of pure whimsy—just ask model Abby Champion (near right) and her corker of a Stefan Cooke hat; stefancooke.co.uk.
—Sean Thomas, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
The climactic shoot-out, which goes on for 25 incredible minutes, is an absolute corker.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
The traffic corkers said a man later identified as Smith politely approached the traffic corkers and asked several questions while walking past, before returning in a hot and inexplicable rage 20 minutes later.
—oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
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Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Based on a script by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, Ransom is a corker of a paranoid, father’s-worst-nightmare thriller in which Gibson plays Tom, a one-percenter who discovers that his son has been kidnapped.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Anyway, Breville doles out sales sparingly, and this little corker is $50 off for the spring sale.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The final scene — a real corker — was filmed at City Hall.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Understatement has its merits, but so too does a bolt of pure whimsy—just ask model Abby Champion (near right) and her corker of a Stefan Cooke hat; stefancooke.co.uk.
—Sean Thomas, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
The climactic shoot-out, which goes on for 25 incredible minutes, is an absolute corker.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
The traffic corkers said a man later identified as Smith politely approached the traffic corkers and asked several questions while walking past, before returning in a hot and inexplicable rage 20 minutes later.
—oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
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“Corker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corker. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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corker
noun
cork·er
ˈkȯr-kər 
1
: one that corks containers
2
: an outstanding person or thing
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