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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.
- See more words with the same meaning: to close a place.
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.
- See more words with the same meaning: to zip one's fly.
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.- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: to close a place.
Last edited on Dec 31 2010. Submitted by Kevin H. from Cedar Rapids, IA, USA on Nov 29 2001.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: general malaise felt on the first day back to work after the weekend. | |
| Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs. | |
| Definitions include: "business". | |
| Definitions include: of a job: having a variety of characteristics that imply that its benefits far outweigh its costs. | |
| Definitions include: a person hired for their expertise. | |
| Definitions include: pejorative term for a person involved in marketing. | |
| Definitions include: to upper management. | |
| Definitions include: in marketing, a satisfied customer who tells others about his positive experience with products of a particular brand name. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "work from home" or "working from home". | |
| Definitions include: a "professional wrestler" who loses matches so as to build up a featured wrestler's win/loss record and crowd appeal. | |
| Definitions include: easy or unchallenging. | |
| Definitions include: To copy or plagiarize, commonly used by emcees to indicate a plagiarist. | |
| Definitions include: to hire a new employee or bring someone onto a team. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "small office / home office". | |
| Definitions include: the main source of income for a business. | |
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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. | |
| Definitions include: See barn door. | |
| Definitions include: guy who scores with lots of chicks | |
| Definitions include: to join together for a common cause. | |
| Definitions include: a person who stands uncomfortably close to others while talking. | |
| Definitions include: to end. | |
| Definitions include: to get a woman into the sack after chatting them up in a social setting. | |
| Definitions include: secret or mostly secret. | |
Other terms relating to 'shop': | |
| 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. | |
| Definitions include: a store that sells drug paraphernalia, such as bowls and bongs for marijuana smoking. | |
| 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. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| 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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