pack up

phrasal verb

packed up; packing up; packs up

1

: to gather one's belongings together and put them in a suitcase or other container for traveling

He packed up and left town.

2

British, informal : to stop or quit

She packs up when things become difficult.

3

British, informal : to stop working properly

The lift has packed up, so you'll have to take the stairs to her flat.

Examples of pack up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Then, one evening, packing up, Cali saw Ronny tearing up. —Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025

Exhausted and despairing, many Palestinians had their own reasons for refusing to pack up and uproot themselves again. —Wafaa Shurafa, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025

Two-dimensional nanomaterials only a few atoms thick are being pushed to new frontiers, with scientists synthesizing MXenes that pack up to nine transition metals into a single ultrathin sheet. —Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025

May as well have packed up and gone home after that. —James Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for pack up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup