Cooped Up

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To confine in or as if in a coop. Surrounded by an enclosure, cage, or some sort of restiction as for poultry or small animals. An uncomfortably confined space. A prison. Urban Dictionary

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The "inferno" is many things for Mr Saviano, but most of all it is the cooped-up life he has been forced to live, while the members of the Camorra who hounded him into hiding continue to break the law with impunity. ❋ Tobias Grey (2011)

Zeus is her 4 ½-year-old Congo African grey parrot, who is ruffling his feathers to stretch his cooped-up, clipped wings. ❋ Nancy Ruhling (2011)

Zeus is her 4 ½-year-old Congo African grey parrot, who is ruffling his feathers to stretch his cooped-up, clipped wings. ❋ Nancy Ruhling (2011)

A heavy, airless stench alerts the approaching visitor of endless litters of whimpering little puppies; walls of cooped-up chickens, roosters, and baby chicks; squawking parrots, caged goats, and snakes; frogs and fish. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

From the endless cold and snow to that cooped-up feeling of boredom. ❋ Mary Ann Esposito (2011)

Still, though we might feel sorry for penned-in pigs and cooped-up chickens, we show no loss of appetite for shoving fast, packaged food down our necks. ❋ Derek Brown (2010)

It smelled of chemicals-less mephitic than sweet-and it was that smell that leaped to greet her, like a cooped-up pooch, when she let herself in on a weary midnight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Animals are cooped-up in pens or giant feedlots instead of roaming free, eating the nutrient-rich wild grains and grasses they once consumed. ❋ M.D. Mark Hyman (2009)

All this, so that cooped-up city dwellers could get their fix of "nature." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Michiganders have been cooped-up, many sick with odd flues that won't go away. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is understandable why he feels cooped-up and restless, mildly feeling trap in the WHITE HOUSE. Could be this out of focus on the job caused by the a pressing problem of a kin folk about to be deported, thus he feels tormented. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So shrimp fishermen are borrowing a page from organic farmers, some of whom let their chickens wander freely before being slaughtered and then sold at higher prices than their cooped-up cousins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A time to fling open all the windows, let the wind and the sun in, and the stuffy and the cooped-up out. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Plus, there was the whole cooped-up, claustrophobia issue. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2007)

I've been cooped up in [my room] for the past [two weeks] preparing for this [exam]. ❋ Deridas (2006)

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