Definitions for put-up

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Spelling: [poo t-uhp]
IPA: /ˈpʊtˌʌp/

Put-Up is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in put-up (-pptuu).

Definitions for put-up

adjective

  1. planned beforehand in a secret or crafty manner:

Origin of put-up

First recorded in 1800-10; adj. use of verb phrase put up

Examples for put-up

I thought at first it was a put-up job to make me jealous, and I laughed at it.

She was a put-up thing of waxwork and a stuffed salmo ferox.

This was said to have been a put-up job, as the man was secured to get a license.

Even if it were a put-up job, as most divorces are nowadays, it would damn me.

They charged Snap with a put-up job, and—well, maybe it was.

We shall have to try it by Chartism, or any conceivable ism, rather than put-up with this!

“You know very well that this is a put-up job,” retorted Creede hotly.

This looks as if it was a put-up job, with the masks, and everything.

He felt at once that it was a put-up job to get him out of the way.

Take it from me, it was a put-up job by that Calabrian woman.

Word Value for put-up
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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