cooped upadjective
uk/ˌkuːpt ˈʌp/us/ˌkuːpt ˈʌp/If you are cooped up somewhere, you are in a small closed space from which you cannot escape, or you feel as if you are:
I hate being cooped up inside working when its a sunny day outside.
It's such a tiny office - don't you ever feel cooped up here?
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Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lag
- lock
- pen
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- send sb down
- serve
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