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Definition of 'box up'

box up in American English

1.

to keep in; surround or confine

2. US

to encase with sheathing boards, or laths

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Example sentences containing 'box up'

"Daddy caves, watching with a weary smile as his son pushes the box up over the side and into the cart.

Alex Shakar THE SAVAGE GIRL (2001)

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Definition of box up from the Collins English Dictionary

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