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Adjective

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1. Alternative form of put-up.

Verb

put up (third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up)Category:English lemmas#PUTUPCategory:English verbs#PUTUPCategory:English phrasal verbs#PUTUPCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22up%22#PUTUPCategory:English multiword terms#PUTUPCategory:English palindromes#PUTUPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PUTUPCategory:Pages with entries#PUT%20UPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PUT%20UP

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To place in a high location.

   Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

   Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To hang; to mount.

   Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PUTUP, used with "to") To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).

   I think someone put him up to it.

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6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PUTUP) To store away.

   Synonym: put away

   Coordinate terms: lock away, lock up

   Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:

     “As for your money,” replied Partridge, “I beg, sir, you will put it up; I will receive none of you at this time; for at present I am, I believe, the richer man of the two. […]

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7. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PUTUP) To house; to shelter; to take in.

   We can put you up for the night.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

8. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PUTUP, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#PUTUP) To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204:

     Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.

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   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 10:

     "Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair.

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   • 1946, William Allen White, Autobiography, page 411:

     For a week or ten days we put up in London at a smart, rather exclusive second- or third-class haunt of the decade's nobility and gentry—the Artillery Mansions.

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10. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PUTUP) To present, especially in "put up a fight".

    That last fighter put up quite a fight.

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    They didn't put up much resistance.

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11. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
    • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:

      By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […]
      VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy.

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    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:

      Dionysius of Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without dore […] ; he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.

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12. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To provide funds in advance.

    Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

    • 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:

      This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.

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13. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To build a structure.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

      The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […] .

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    • 1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell:

      They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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14. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To make available; to offer.

    The picture was put up for auction.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

    I put my first child up for adoption.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

    • 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 3, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography‎ (non-fiction), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 39:

      The house on Arbol Drive was put up for sale that autumn; this portion of the street soon vanished, and the land became part of the Hollywood Bowl complex.

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    • 2023 November 1, “'Western' on the move as diesel-hydraulics change hands”, in RAIL, number 995, page 24:

      Meanwhile, D9513 has been acquired by a member of the Wensleydale Railway, after it was put up for sale by its owners who had the locomotive at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway.

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16. (huntingCategory:en:Hunting#PUTUP, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To cause (wild game) to break cover.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

      "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up."

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18. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, food and drink, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PUTUP) To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
    • 1983, Audrey Borenstein, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America‎ (non-fiction), Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 187:

      People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.

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20. (USCategory:American English#PUTUP, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#PUTUP, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, sportsCategory:en:Sports#PUTUP, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PUTUP) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboardCategory:English ellipses#PUTUP.
    • 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times‎:

      In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.

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    • 2011 August 9, John Kreiser, “The Great One's 23 unbreakable records”, in NHL.com‎:

      The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96.

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22. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, printingCategory:en:Printing#PUTUP, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#PUTUP) To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.

    Antonym: put down

23. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#PUTUP, slangCategory:English slang#PUTUP) To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.

    I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

24. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP, African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#PUTUP, slangCategory:English slang#PUTUP) To kill (someone).

    I'll put him up.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUTUP

25. Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”).
26. (UKCategory:British English#PUTUP, slangCategory:English slang#PUTUP, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#PUTUP, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUTUP) To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery.
    • 1856, The London Quarterly Review, volumes 98-99, page 104:

      Her account of the manner in which the 'plant' was made upon her, affords a good example of the style of 'putting up' a house robbery: […]

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