1.
If you pack something in , you stop doing it. ( mainly BRIT INFORMAL )
I’d just packed in a job the day before...
Pack it in. Stop being spiteful.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P
2.
If someone packs in things or people, they fit a lot of them into a limited space or time.
Prisons are having to pack in as many inmates as possible...
It’s kind of a referendum, though a lot of issues are packed in.
= cram in
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V P n (not pron) , also V n P
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If a play, film or event packs them in , lots of people go to see it.
‘Blow your head!’ is still packing them in at Camden’s Jazz Café every Friday night.
PHRASE : V inflects