box up

1. 1.

   enclose or confine as if in a box

   Synonymsbox in

   Broaderenclose

Questions about box up

What does box up mean?

box up means "enclose or confine as if in a box".

What is another word for box up?

Close synonyms include box in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is box up a common word?

box 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.