PACK IN


Meaning of PACK IN in English

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 ~ 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

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 Cafe every Friday night.

PHRASE: V inflects

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