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Put-up

Definition: Put-up

Put-up

Adjective

1. 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)


Non-Fiction Usage: Put-up

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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.

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Expression: Put-up

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "put-up": put-up-on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Put-up

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

   

Romanian

  

înscenare (frame up, put-up job, staging). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подстроенный. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

danışıklı dövüş (frame up, put-up job, set up), şike (chicane, chicanery, put-up job). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

b y mưu tính kế trước. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Put-up

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).

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Rhyming with "Put-up"

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)

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Anagrams: Put-up

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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