pack up
v. phr.— «Some dogs got free on their own and have started to “pack up,” in the military’s terminology. The dog packs look cute at first, spaniels and poodles and dobermans all running together—until they rush at you.» —“Dogged rescuers” by Helen Kennedy New York Daily News Sept. 19, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
After our conversation about various names for a television remote control, a listener emailed to say that early remote controls produced an audible tone that activated the TV channel changer and volume, and whenever his dogs Lupe and Bubba stood up...