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stitch up

verb 5
stitch-up noun 2
forms 4

verb5

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To join or close by sewing.
- Up at the spinal unit, rumour has it that they've laid their hands on the right set of spanners this time, so hopefully I'll be stripped down, stitched up and ready to roll by the end of June. — 2008
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To fabricate (e.g. a legal case).
- “They warn me that I should not go to far and threaten to stitch up a case against me if I do.”, he said — 2008
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(UK, slang) To maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone; to set up (in the sense trap or ensnare)
- […] everyone knew the score, that he was being conned, used by business interests, the sort of scum we hated. It wasn't meant in a bad way, though, just that we could see he was being stitched up. — 2000
(Australia, slang) To prank, trick, or deceive (a person), whether or not malice is intended.
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(slang) To complete arrangements for (a situation), especially clandestinely or prematurely and for one's own benefit.
- So, by the time these enormous corporate manoeuvres had been stitched up, the Firm controlled, or had an interest in, over a hundred cinemas across Australia. — 2006

stitch-up noun2

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(UK, slang) An act designed to maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone.
- The police planted the gun in my car. It was a stitch-up.
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(UK, slang) Something arranged deceitfully and in secret.
- Wilson's election as leader was a stitch-up by the committee.

forms

stitched up · stitching up · stitches up · stitch-ups

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