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box up

box up verb: to pack into boxes.

Verb

box up (third-person singular simple present boxes up, present participle boxing up, simple past and past participle boxed up)

  1. (transitive) To pack into boxes.
    Synonyms:
    box
  2. (transitive) To confine.
    • to be boxed up in narrow quarters
    • “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160
  3. (transitive) To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them.
    • The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.1948, Thomas Louis Stix, "Say it Ain't So, Joe.", page 243
    • He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275

Synonyms of box up

Antonyms

Forms of box up

third-person singular presentboxes up
present participleboxing up
past participleboxed up
pastboxed up

Questions about box up

What does box up mean?
Box up means to pack into boxes.
What part of speech is box up?
Box up is a verb.
What is the past tense of box up?
The past tense of box up is boxed up.

Words near box up in the dictionary

  1. box trees
  2. box truck
  3. box trucks
  4. box turtle
  5. box turtles
  6. box up
  7. box van
  8. box vans
  9. box wagon
  10. box wagons
  11. box wine

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