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park up

park up verb: to park one's motor vehicle.

Verb

park up (third-person singular simple present parks up, present participle parking up, simple past and past participle parked up)

  1. (intransitive) To park one's motor vehicle.
    • Having marked that, we then went into Sabugal where we parked up and went to explore the castle. It was closed and wouldn't be open for an hour as it was lunch time so we went to look at the town.2010, Gwen Harlow, The Motorhome Diaries, page 151

Forms of park up

third-person singular presentparks up
present participleparking up
past participleparked up
pastparked up

Questions about park up

What does park up mean?
Park up means to park one's motor vehicle.
What part of speech is park up?
Park up is a verb.
What is the past tense of park up?
The past tense of park up is parked up.

Words near park up in the dictionary

  1. Park Street
  2. park strip
  3. park that thought
  4. park the beef bus in tuna town
  5. park the bus
  6. park up
  7. park-and-ride
  8. park-goer
  9. park-goers
  10. park-keeper
  11. park-keepers

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