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PACK UP

Synonyms within Context: PACK UP

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Circumscription

Enfold, bury, encase, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up; (invest); embay, embosom.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PACK UP

English words defined with "PACK UP": To do up. (references)

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Modern Usage: PACK UP

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well end your suffering little man. Why don't you pack up your gear and clear out of here? (West Side Story; writing credit: Jerome Robbins; Arthur Laurents)

She used it to pack up and move out. (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

Movie/TV Titles

Pack Up Your Troubles (1940)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: PACK UP

DomainTitle

Books

  • Pack Up Your Gloomies In A Great Big Box, Then Sit On The Lid And Laugh! (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Live - Pack up the Plantation (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: PACK UP

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Young fisherman helps pack up part of the day's catch of yellowtail snapper. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: PACK UP

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It was with great difficulty that Toussaint obtained permission to pack up a little linen and clothing and a few toilet articles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: PACK UP

Expressions using "PACK UP": pack up a tent pack up and be off pack up bag and baggage pack up one's bits and pieces pack up one's traps pack up your things!. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PACK UP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pack up your trouble

5

frame fun pack up

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PACK UP

Language Translations for "PACK UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), vdes (be dying, burst, croak, decease, depart, die, die away, die down, do in, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), ngec (break down, conk out, flounder, fob off, foist, foul, hesitate, hitch, jam, Lodge, plant, run down, seize, throw, thrust), mbledh plaçkat. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كف عن العمل (run down), ‏جهز (accommodate, activate, appoint, device, equip, equip with, fit, fit out, furnish, gear, get ready, outfit, prepare, provide, set off, set smb. up in smth., stand by, think out), ‏إنتهى (determine, do, end, fall out, finish, have smth. done, issue, run out, turn out, wink), ‏رحل (be moved, carry, depart, expel, flit, itinerant, migrant, move, part, pass, peregrinate, pull out, relay, remove, send back, shift, slope). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стягам си багажа, отказвам се (backtrack, cede, draw back, forego, forgo, forsake, release, resign), опаковам (do, pack, pack away, put up, wrap), прекратявам работа (close down). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zhasnout (black out, douse, fizzle out, go off, go out, snuff out, switch off, turn off, turn out), zabalit (do up, enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, make up, pack, package, parcel up, turn in, wrap, wrap up), sbalit (bag, nab, nobble, pack). (various references)

   

French

  

plier bagage, tomber en panne (pack in), rendre l'âme, mettre dans une valise, laisser tomber (pass up), faire ses bagages, faire sa valise, emballer (pack, package, parcel). (various references)

   

German

  

zusammenpacken (collect up, make up, pack in, package, to pack up). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πακετάρω (crate, pack, package). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תחסל (be liquidated). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pakol, becsomagol (case, to bundle up, to fold in, to pack, to pack up one's things, to parcel, to parcel up, to put up, to wrap up, wrap up), összepakol (to pack, to pack up), összecsomagol (to do up, to make up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

piantare (abandon, crop, Dibble, drive, get stuck in, leave, leave each other, Lodge, pitch, place oneself, plant, plant oneself, put, quit, set, stick, walk away from), sgombrare (clear, clear away, evacuate, move out of, vacate), imballare (bale, case, pack, wrap). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackpay upay

   

Portuguese

  

arrumar (arrange, array, clear up, fettle, fix up, groom, pigeonhole, put in order, stow, straighten, tidy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

termina treabã, nu mai merge (i'm past it), muri (croak, decease, depart, die, drop off, expire, get off the hooks, go, go west, hop the perch, kick in, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, suffer), a-şi face bagajul (march off, pack up bag and baggage). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

увязать (pack, tie, tie up), упаковать, прекратить работу (down tools). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spakovati se, odmagliti (beat it, leave, pop off, scat, skip, take off). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacer las valijas, hacer la maleta (pack), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), empaquetar (bag, envelop, mothball, pack, package, packet, parcel, wrap), averiarse (addle, break down, fail, give up, go wrong, ruin, spoil, to spoil). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

emballera (pack, package). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

paketlemek (do up, enfold, infold, pack, package, packet, wrap, wrap up), toparlanmak (collect oneself, gather, gather strength, pack, pick oneself up, pick up, pick up one's strenght, pull oneself together, rally, tidy oneself up, tidy up), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), eşyalarını toplamak (pack), durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, halt, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, let up, linger, pull in, pull up, remain, rest, run down, stall, stand, stay, stop). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зіпсуватися, припинити (can), померти (bump off, decease, end, go west, pass away, pass in, pass out, peg out, pip out, pop off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PACK UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-k-p-p-u"

-1 letter: cuppa, pucka.

-2 letters: pack, puck, pupa.

-3 letters: auk, cap, cup, pac, pap, pup.

-4 letters: ka, pa, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-k-p-p-u"
 

+4 letters: supplejack.

 

+5 letters: supplejacks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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