pack up

Verb

pack up (third-person singular simple present packs up, present participle packing up, simple past and past participle packed up)

1. 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. 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) 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 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283
   • 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
8. (intransitive, transitive) To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
   • Ralph, it's your turn to pack up the bowl.
   • The bong is already packed up.