phoney up

English

Verb

phoney up (third-person singular simple present phoneys up, present participle phoneying up, simple past and past participle phoneyed up)

1. Alternative form of phony up
   • 1972, United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Inquiry Into Alleged Rigging of Television News Programs, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Investigations .., 92-2, May 17, 18, and 23, 1972:

     If you take time to edit a person's answers or phoney up the story in any way, the public viewers, millions of them throughout the country, are getting a distorted view of what is actually happening.

   • 2001, Peter Carnahan, The Ethnic Wars, →ISBN, page 30:

     And it worked. He realized it was just like reading a lock and phoneying up an electronic ID for it.

   • 2012, Harris Baseman, The President's Jihadist, →ISBN, page 404:

     Maybe we can use her we find a way to maintain that Silver's people phoneyed up the evidence we found.