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English
Verb
pack up (third-person singular simple present packs up, present participle packing up, simple past and past participle packed up)
- To give in. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To clear away and place into storage.
- To put back together. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To move one’s residence.
- After 5 months in Madrid, I've decided it is time to pack up.
- To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
- Pack up the crates.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
- 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.
- (of things) To put into bags to prepare to move.
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- 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):
- (informal, of a machine) To break, to cease to function.
- 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
- The shop was driven by a hiccoughy old gas engine which sometimes packed up, to the great delight of all the juveniles.
- 1968, CQ; the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 52:
- 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.
- 1971, Flying Magazine, August 1971[1]:
- 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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
- Ralph, it's your turn to pack up the bowl.
- The bong is already packed up.
Translations
to put back together
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to move one's residence
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to prepare as a gift
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to put things in bags and prepare to move
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to break down (machine)
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