bundle up

present singular third person bundles up · participle present bundling up · participle past bundled up · past bundled up

1. transitiveliteral and figurativeTo put into a bundle.
2. intransitivetransitiveTo dress in, or put on, warm clothes (especially, multiple layers thereof).

   Near-synonym: layer up

   2 more examples

   "Come, boys, bundle up well, because it's going to be a cold drive." "I'll run ahead to get the others,"

   1916, Alice Hale Burnett, chapter IV, in Christmas Holidays at Merryvale

   We mustn't forget that before the temperature really drops, we have the transitional season of fall that gives us the type of weather that's too hot for a coat, but too cold for just a light sweater. It can be challenging to figure out how to bundle up without worrying about sweating through layers!

   2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan

   Synonyms: layer up