park up

verb

To park one's motor vehicle.

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Meanings

verbpark up (third-person singular simple present parks up, present participle parking up, simple past and past participle parked up)

present singular third person parks up · participle present parking up · participle past parked up · past parked up

  1. intransitiveTo park one's motor vehicle.

    Having marked that, we then went into Sabugal where we parked up and went to explore the castle. It was closed and wouldn't be open for an hour as it was lunch time so we went to look at the town.

    2010, Gwen Harlow, The Motorhome Diaries, page 151
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    Even on the first day, aside from the hordes of media people, there were commuters. Tom Boyns from Bewdley was one of them. He says: "It's so nice to be able to get out of bed and take the train to work. It makes a change from my normal 20 minute drive to Stourbridge and then having to park up and then wait for the train."

    2026 September 16, Peter Plisner, “Commuter connections for a heritage railway”, in RAIL, number 1070, page 51
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “park up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/park%20up.

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