put-up

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put-up

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Deverbal from put up.

adjective put up

not comparable, of an event Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. 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."

noun put-ups · put up

Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests. 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.

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noun Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone

Français	coup monté
Deutsch	abgekartetes Spiel, Falle, Inszenierung

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@misc{put_up_2026,
  title = {put-up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/put-up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}