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Definition: Put-up |
Put-upAdjective1. Planned secretly; "it was a put-up job". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "put-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Medium and smaller distributors and owners of the "final mile" may possibly try to put-up all kinds of bureaucratic and even physical hurdles. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "put-up": put-up-on. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "put-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | експлоатиран (exploited, put-up-on), измамен (deceitful, deceptive, done, double dealing, fallacious, put-up-on, screwed up, unreal), използуван (put-up-on, used). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 投入 (PUT, Put-off, Putting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Es war eine abgekartete Sache. (It was a put-up affair.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | előre megrendezett (cut and dried), előre kitermelt, előre kiszámított, előre kifőzött, előre elkészített. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | montatura (bluff, exaggeration, frames, hype, Mount, mounting, put-up job, rim, setting, stunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 八百長 (fixed game, put-up job), でっち上' (but, exhausted, fabrication, frame-up, however, logy, lovestruck, put-up job, so, then, trumped-up story, well, well then). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | でっちあ' (fabrication, frame-up, put-up job, trumped-up story), やおちょう (fixed game, put-up job). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 위로 두십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ut-uppay înscenare (frame up, put-up job, staging). (various references) подстроенный. (various references) danışıklı dövüş (frame up, put-up job, set up), şike (chicane, chicanery, put-up job). (various references) b y mưu tính kế trước. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Put-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pao-yu, Potupa, pou-spp, pu-abi, pur-pur, ru-tu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "put-up" (pronounced 'Put"-up'): Break-up, frame-up, get-up, Let-up, make-up, Steep-up, step-up, stuck-up, take-up, tip-up, Wind-up. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "p-p-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: pup, put, tup. | |
-3 letters: up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-p-t-u-u" | |
+3 letters: uppercut. | |
+4 letters: suppurate, uppercuts. | |
+5 letters: suppurated, suppurates. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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