phonyed up

English

Verb

phonyed up

1. (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of phony up
   • 1944 May 20, “Hickory Stick”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 21:

     It is too bad that they phonyed-up what might have been a fine play with gangsters and pistols and hoke

   • 2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Depraved Indifference, →ISBN:

     You shot a bunch of Cubans, you kept me in captivity, you phonyed up a phone call so you could kidnap a person in state custody.

   • 2016, Harlan Ellison, Slippage, →ISBN:

     Where's the guy who phonyed up those Kyben monsters for the bond drive ghosters, for the holos that got all of us to join up before we'd learned to wipe our asses?