Sekirov Dictionary

pack up

verb 8
pack-up noun 2
forms 4

verb8

To clear away and place into storage.
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To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
- Pack up the crates.
To put into bags to prepare to move.
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(informal) To break, to cease to function.
- The shop was driven by a hiccoughy old gas engine which sometimes packed up, to the great delight of all the juveniles. — 1944
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To move one’s residence.
- After 5 months in Madrid, I've decided it is time to pack up.
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To give in; to give up; to leave in defeat.
- Our last batter just struck out. Time to pack it up, boys.
To put back together.
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To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
- Ralph, it's your turn to pack up the bowl.
- The bong is already packed up.

pack-up noun2

A bundle or shipment of goods.
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(Wales) A packed lunch.
- Mums […] were often won over not so much by the healthy eating arguments as by a simple fact — in my experience, no parent has yet been born who loved making pack-ups. — 2011

forms

packed up · packing up · packs up · pack-ups

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