board up

1. 1.

   cover with wooden boards

   “board up windows before the hurricane”

   Broadercover

Questions about board up

What does board up mean?

board up means "cover with wooden boards".

Is board up a common word?

board up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.