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Definition of close up shop

close up shop

verb

  • to "close" any location. For example, if one has people over at one's house, one could encourage visitors to leave by saying,
    I'm tired, so I think I'm going to close up shop.

    Last edited on Dec 31 2010. Submitted by Kevin H. from Cedar Rapids, IA, USA on Nov 29 2001.

  • to zip the zipper on one's pants.
    Hey, you need to close up shop.

    Last edited on Nov 29 2001. Submitted by Kevin H. from Cedar Rapids, IA, USA on Nov 29 2001.

  • to close one's place of business for the night.
                          

                                                                         

    Citation from "Acid Queen", Reaper (TV), Season 1 Episode 13 (2008) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Dec 31 2010. Submitted by Kevin H. from Cedar Rapids, IA, USA on Nov 29 2001.

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Definitions include: See barn door.
Definitions include: See barn door.

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Other terms relating to 'close':

Definitions include: in private.
Definitions include: To steal from, rip off.
Definitions include: to almost happen, but not.
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Definitions include: to join together for a common cause.
Definitions include: a person who stands uncomfortably close to others while talking.
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Definitions include: to get a woman into the sack after chatting them up in a social setting.
Definitions include: secret or mostly secret.

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Definitions include: acronym for "best friends forever who eat out and go shopping a lot".
Definitions include: a place where people keep stolen cars and fix them up and then re-sell them.
Definitions include: police station.
Definitions include: to go from doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions for pharmaceuticals.
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Definitions include: to set up one's workplace.
Definitions include: shortened form of "Photoshop".
Definitions include: acronym for "Too Embarrassed To Buy In The Shops".

Other terms relating to 'up':

Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: to misbehave.
Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
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Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
Definitions include: to make something like ass.
Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
Definitions include: stupid.
Definitions include: strange / stupid.

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