put up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts up
form: putting up
form: put up
form: put up
Senses: examples: text: Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
text: Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.
glosses: To place in a high location.
examples: text: Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
glosses: To hang; to mount.
glosses: To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
examples: text: I think someone put him up to it.
glosses: To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
raw_tags: used with "to"
examples: text: Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
text: “As for your money,” replied Partridge, “I beg, sir, you will put it up; I will receive none of you at this time; for at present I am, I believe, the richer man of the two. […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:
synonyms: put away
coordinate_terms: lock away
lock up
glosses: To store away.
examples: text: We can put you up for the night.
glosses: To house; to shelter; to take in.
examples: text: Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204:
text: "Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair.
ref: 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 10:
text: For a week or ten days we put up in London at a smart, rather exclusive second- or third-class haunt of the decade's nobility and gentry—the Artillery Mansions.
ref: 1946, William Allen White, Autobiography, page 411:
glosses: To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
examples: text: That last fighter put up quite a fight.
text: They didn't put up much resistance.
glosses: To present, especially in "put up a fight".
examples: text: By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […]
VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: Dionysius of Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without dore […]; he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
glosses: To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
examples: text: Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
text: This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.
ref: 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:
glosses: To provide funds in advance.
examples: text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
ref: 1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell:
glosses: To build a structure.
examples: text: The picture was put up for auction.
text: I put my first child up for adoption.
text: The house on Arbol Drive was put up for sale that autumn; this portion of the street soon vanished, and the land became part of the Hollywood Bowl complex.
ref: 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 3, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (non-fiction), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Meanwhile, D9513 has been acquired by a member of the Wensleydale Railway, after it was put up for sale by its owners who had the locomotive at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway.
ref: 2023 November 1, “'Western' on the move as diesel-hydraulics change hands”, in RAIL, number 995, page 24:
glosses: To make available; to offer.
examples: text: "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To cause (wild game) to break cover.
examples: text: People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.
ref: 1983, Audrey Borenstein, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America (non-fiction), Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 187:
qualifier: food and drink
glosses: To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
examples: text: In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.
ref: 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times:
text: The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96.
ref: 2011 August 9, John Kreiser, “The Great One's 23 unbreakable records”, in NHL.com:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
topics: media
printing
publishing
antonyms: put down
glosses: To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
examples: I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.
examples: I'll put him up.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To kill (someone).
glosses: Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”).
synonyms: word: frame up
extra: falsely pin a crime on
examples: text: Her account of the manner in which the 'plant' was made upon her, affords a good example of the style of 'putting up' a house robbery: […]
ref: 1856, The London Quarterly Review, volumes 98-99, page 104:
glosses: To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery.
Derived terms: put up or shut up
put up with
put-you-up