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pack up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (with it) To give in; to give up; to leave in defeat.
   • Our last batter just struck out. Time to pack it up, boys.
2. To clear away and place into storage.
3. To put back together.
4. To move one’s residence.
   • After 5 months in Madrid, I've decided it is time to pack up.
5. To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
   • Pack up the crates.
   • Ashley: You're Dr. Warren, the one in charge of the excavation. Do you know what happened to the beacon? Dr. Warren: It was moved to the spaceport this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to help pack up the camp. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
6. (of things) To put into bags to prepare to move.
   • Julie DeLongpre: Is there anything I can do to help? Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Well, I guess maybe you could pack up your belongings- Julie: All right. And go back to wherever the hell you came from. Does that make sense? So, it does make sense? No? 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
7. (informal, of a machine) To break, to cease to function.
   • If I were asked which l'd rather be in, a single-engine Comanche or its double-breasted brother, at night after an engine packed up at 6,000 feet, I'd have to quickly choose the Twin Comanche. 1971, Flying Magazine, August 1971:
   • Sitting mute, I watched the faint line of smoke fade into oblivion, and with it went the hopes of this CQ Contest... The Receiver power trannie had packed up. 1968, CQ; the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 52:
   • The shop was driven by a hiccoughy old gas engine which sometimes packed up, to the great delight of all the juveniles. 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
8. (intransitive, transitive) To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
   • The bong is already packed up.
   • Ralph, it's your turn to pack up the bowl.

Forms

Translations (22)

ja 荷造りする (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · ru собира́ться (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · ko 싸다 (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · ru упако́вываться (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · ru упакова́ться (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · ca embalar (to prepare as a gift) · de sich aufhängen (to break down (machine)) · ko 꾸리다 (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · fr faire sa valise (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · de verpacken (to prepare for shipping) · mi whakatakupe (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · de einpacken (to give in) · de einschlagen (to prepare as a gift) · de zusammenpacken (to put back together) · ru собра́ться (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · de wegpacken (to clear away and place into storage) · la convāsō (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · de den Geist aufgeben (to break down (machine)) · de (seine Sachen) packen (to move one's residence) · de einwickeln (to prepare as a gift) · ko 짐을 싸다 (to put things in bags and prepare to move) · de einpacken (to put things in bags and prepare to move)