1 (informal) (cease to function) [+washing-machine, car] estropearse; descomponerse; especially (Méx) [+battery] agotarse; [+engine] averiarse; estropearse I'd only gone another two miles when the gearbox packed up again it looks as if the battery has packed up
2 (informal) [+person] (stop activity) let's pack up now vamos a dejarlo terminar ya;or
the men were packing up for the night/ and the day shift was about to come on/ it's obvious no one's going to come - we might as well pack up now US officials had said they would pack up and go if the Senate rejected the treaty let's pack up and go
(collect things together) recoger (mis, tus, sus etc cosas);etc you can pack up now, children
they just packed up and left recogieron (sus cosas) y se marcharon
he has been told to pack up and move out he just packed up and moved off
