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Definition of Put-up
1. Adjective. Planned secretly. "It was a put-up job"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Put-up
Literary usage of Put-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... the rector furtively and nervously glanced down, and instinctively put up his
hand to feel if the remark was true), "or your coat rusty at the elbows. ..."
2. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy (1896)
"The very conflict his Truth brought, in accomplishing its purpose of Love, meant,
all the way through, " Put up thy sword," but the sword must have been ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"This is a line of Extra Super, or Strictly First-Class Writing-Papers, linen
stock, put up in handsome colored enameled paper, lithographed wrappers, ..."
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