Usually means: Seal or suppress emotions tightly.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cork up)

verb:  (transitive) To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
verb:  (transitive) To block with a cork or something similar.
verb:  (usually imperative, slang, intransitive) Shut up; be quiet.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) be quiet.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To suppress an emotion or impulse.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.

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