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put-up

[poot-uhp]

put-up

[poot-uhp]
adjective Informal.
planned beforehand in a secret or crafty manner: a put-up job.

Origin:
1800–10; adj. use of verb phrase put up
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put-up

adjective
planned secretly; "it was a put-up job" 
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