Definitions for frame-up

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Spelling: [freym-uhp]
IPA: /ˈfreɪmˌʌp/

Frame-Up is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in frame-up (-aefmpru).

Definitions for frame-up

noun

  1. a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.

Origin of frame-up

1895-1900, Americanism; frame + up, modeled on nominalizations of phrasal verbs, with up as perfective particle

Examples for frame-up

And it will be a frame-up for poor old Dan and Clarence, too!

Blowed if I see why she'd do it, but it might be they fixed a frame-up between them.

Possibly it was a "frame-up" on the part of the men, or perhaps it just happened.

I knew from the first that the whole thing was to be a frame-up.

Say, sis, Benny called out sharply, what sort of frame-up is this?

That corruption, says Stafford Smith, provided the opportunity for a “frame-up of epic proportions.”

“It kinda looks to me like a frame-up,” he resumed from his fresh viewpoint.

He went on reading the papers and presently exclaimed: Its a frame-up.

“That the whole darned deal was a frame-up,” declared Uncle Jepson.

The most I'd have got on that frame-up would've been ten years.

Word Value for frame-up
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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