From en.wiktionary.org:
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** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en] _(adj.)_
*** Etymology
[en].
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Secretly arranged in advance , especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [19]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=Apr 7 2006 | author=w:Jim Geraghty | title=Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short | titleurl=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/outside-voices-jim-geraghty-looks-at-where-blogosphere-has-succeeded-and-where-its-fallen-short/ | journal=CBS News | accessdate=27 June 2015
|passage=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."}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=March 28 2009 | author=Dina Kraft | title=British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist' | titleurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5067755/British-war-hero-to-be-investigated-again-for-murder-of-Jewish-terrorist.html | journal=Telegraph | accessdate=27 June 2015 | location=UK
|passage=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."}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 23 2012 | author=Waylon Johnston | title=Cleared of setting up theft scenario | titleurl=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120623/local/Cleared-of-setting-up-theft-scenario.425551 | journal=Times of Malta | accessdate=27 June 2015
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=Apr 3 2013 | author=Anurag Behar | title=RTE and the activity trap | titleurl=http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/ZPQBmmmK9gO8W9DvpW3sUI/RTE-and-the-activity-trap.html | journal=livemint.com | accessdate=27 June 2015
|passage=None of this is a sham: it is not a PUT-UP show for us.}}
**** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Something prearrange d or fake d in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=Apr 25 2012 | title=No Girls Gone Wild in Washington? | titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103191902/http://www.fitsnews.com/2012/04/25/no-girls-gone-wild-in-washington/ | journal=fitsnews.com | accessdate=27 June 2015
|passage=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: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
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*** Further reading
- [put-up]