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put up

verb 20
put-up adjective 1
put-up noun 1
forms 3

verb20

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To place in a high location.
- Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
- Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.
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To house; to shelter; to take in.
- We can put you up for the night.
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To hang; to mount.
- Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
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To present, especially in "put up a fight".
- That last fighter put up quite a fight.
- They didn't put up much resistance.
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To make available; to offer.
- The picture was put up for auction.
- I put my first child up for adoption.
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To provide funds in advance.
- Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
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To build a structure.
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […]. — 1963
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To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
- By gogs bloud my maisters, we will not put vp this so quietly, […] VVele so deale of ourselues as wele reuenge this villainy. — 1593
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To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
- I think someone put him up to it.
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To store away.
- Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
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(US, Canada) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
- In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners. — 2020
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To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and/or pickling and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
- People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples. — 1983
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(slang) To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.
- I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them.
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To cause (wild game) to break cover.
- "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up." — 1912
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(slang) To kill (someone).
- I'll put him up.
Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”).
(historical) To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
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(no longer used) To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
- Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner. — 1860
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(slang, no longer used) To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery.
- Her account of the manner in which the 'plant' was made upon her, affords a good example of the style of 'putting up' a house robbery: […] — 1856

put-up adjective1

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Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
- 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." — 2009

put-up noun1

Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.

forms

putting up · puts up · put-ups

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