Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Pack up
Both terms in one sentence
- The murder victim of In the Heat of the Night was a more-or-less respectable version of this, and when his widow decides the local Police Are Useless she threatens to pack up his entire business and move it elsewhere unless they keep Fish out of Water homicide expert Tibbs on the case.
Source: I Own This Town
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