Pronunciation

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Verb

send up (third-person singular simple present sends up, present participle sending up, simple past and past participle sent up)Category:English lemmas#SENDUPCategory:English verbs#SENDUPCategory:English phrasal verbs#SENDUPCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22up%22#SENDUPCategory:English multiword terms#SENDUPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SENDUPCategory:Pages with entries#SEND%20UPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SEND%20UP

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SENDUP) To imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour.

   The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.Category:English terms with usage examples#SENDUP

   • 2004 November 18, William Cook, “All in the worst possible taste”, in The Guardian‎:

     It started out running adverts that sent up the products they were supposed to be promoting. Today you scarcely see an advert that isn't sending up itself.

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   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎:

     He had more fun co-writing and directing two series for the BBC called Ripping Yarns (1976-79) in which Palin starred as a series of heroic characters in mock-adventure stories, among them Across the Andes by Frog, and Roger of the Raj, sending up interwar literature aimed at schoolboys.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SENDUP, USCategory:American English#SENDUP, slangCategory:English slang#SENDUP) To put in prison.

   The judge sent him up for three years.Category:English terms with usage examples#SENDUP

   • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 161:

     "I guess you're a wise one, all right, but what's the use? I tell you we've got enough on you already to send you up. You might as well talk straight."

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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send,‎ up.

   Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.Category:English terms with usage examples#SENDUP

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• ends up, unsped, up-ends, upends, upsend