case up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]case up (third-person singular simple present cases up, present participle casing up, simple past and past participle cased up)
- (transitive) To place (something) in cases (a box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture); to be covered in a case (a box, sheath, or covering generally); to enclose or seal as if by a case.
- We have to case up those bottles.
- The computer should be cased up when you're done using it.
- The buildings around it case it up.
- The hotel should be cased up for winter.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) Synonym of catch a case (to commit a crime and be arrested for it)
- I can't believe you got cased up for what happened at the store.
- (transitive, slang) Synonym of case (to survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery)
- He cased up the nicest houses in the neighborhood.
