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clam; clam up verb to stop talking US, 1916- I haven’t got enough to lean on you and make you open up, but you can believe it that I’m going to get something that’ll make you give this clamming up another thought. — Robert Campbell, The Cat’s Meow, p. 113, 1988
- Phil, I’m just scared he’s gonna clam up on me with all these sheriffs all over the place. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
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