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Printable Version Pronunciation: kor-kêr Hear it!  Part of
Speech: Noun  Meaning: 1. Someone who corks bottles. 2.
(Regional slang) Something that brings finality, that puts an
end to a matter, that 'puts a cork in' something. 3. (Regional
slang) Something excellent, outstanding in its class or
category.  Notes: Today's Good Word is most common today in New
England, so it is a regional slang term. It often is accompanied
by a prepositional phrase beginning with of: you can tell a
corker of a story or experience a corker of a storm. Any way you
use it, it indicates that the noun it modifies is an outstanding
example of its class.  In Play: If you travel about Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine, you are apt to hear sentiments expressed
like this: "I hear that the alphaDictionary Good Words are a
corker of a word-of-the-day series." Well, that's the way we
dream of it. "That story you told ab