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Send-up
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So is ort. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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send-up
"a spoof," British slang, 1958, from earlier verb phrase send up "to mock, make fun of" (1931), from send + up, perhaps a transf. sense of the public school term for "to send a boy to the headmaster" (usually for punishment), which is attested from 1821.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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