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pack up
verb
- to put (things) away in a proper or suitable place
- informal.to give up (an attempt) or stop doing (something)
if you don't do your work better, you might as well pack up
- intr (of an engine, machine, etc) to fail to operate; break down
- engineering to use packing to adjust the height of a component or machine before it is secured in its correct position or alignment
Example Sentences
He left an envelope for Lucy containing a note imploring her to pack up everything and disappear along with their teenage son.
“By the time she got herself together and tried to pack up some things, the fire was right there in our backyard.”
“We were going off of our intuition and fear. They should’ve evacuated everybody when we left, told us to pack up everything we need and to leave. But nothing.”
How do you negotiate the victim into making major concessions while all but telling them to pack up and leave?
A contractor at one USAID-funded nongovernmental organization told me he was told to pack up, that the project was over.
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