Put-up
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Put-up is an adjective meaning (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.].
Meaning
(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.].
More Meanings
- Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
Example Sentences
None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.
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."
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.
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.
Word Forms
- put-ups
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preconcerted, sneak, forepublished, prelaid, set-aside, staged.
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