Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pack in

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 pack in 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