put-up

See also: put up

English

Alternative forms

• put up (adj.)

Etymology

Deverbal from put up.

Adjective

put-up (not comparable)

1. (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

• put-up job

Noun

put-up (plural put-ups)

1. 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

Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone

• French: coup monté (fr) m
• German: abgekartetes Spiel n, Falle (de) f, Inszenierung (de) f

Further reading

• “put-up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.