put-up
See also: put up
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- put up (adj.)
Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]put-up (not comparable)
- (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.]
- 2006 April 7, Jim Geraghty, “Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short”, in CBS News, retrieved 27 June 2015:
- Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."
- 2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, “British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist'”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 27 June 2015:
- Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."
- 2012 June 23, Waylon Johnston, “Cleared of setting up theft scenario”, in Times of Malta, retrieved 27 June 2015:
- A “romantically obsessed ” Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident.
- 2013 April 3, Anurag Behar, “RTE and the activity trap”, in livemint.com, retrieved 27 June 2015:
- None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
- 2012 April 25, “No Girls Gone Wild in Washington?”, in fitsnews.com, retrieved 27 June 2015:
- A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.
Translations
[edit]Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone
|
Further reading
[edit]- “put-up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.