Word: put up Part of Speech: verb 1. To place in a high location. Labels: transitive Example: Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins. Example: Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request. 2. To hang; to mount. Labels: transitive Example: Many people put up messages on their refrigerators. 3. To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down. Labels: transitive 4. To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something). Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: I think someone put him up to it. 5. To store away. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Be sure to put up the tools when you finish. Example: “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. […] 6. To house; to shelter; to take in. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: We can put you up for the night. 7. To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.) Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner. Example: "Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair. 8. To present, especially in "put up a fight". Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: That last fighter put up quite a fight. Example: They didn't put up much resistance. 9. To endure; to put up with; to tolerate. Labels: transitive Example: By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […] VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy. Example: 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. 10. To provide funds in advance. Labels: transitive Example: Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight. Example: This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word. 11. To build a structure. Labels: transitive Example: 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, […]. Example: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 12. To make available; to offer. Labels: transitive Example: The picture was put up for auction. Example: I put my first child up for adoption. 13. To cause (wild game) to break cover. Labels: transitive Example: "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up." 14. To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and/or pickling and storing in a bottle, jar or can. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples. 15. To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard. Labels: Canada, US, idiomatic, transitive Example: 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. Example: The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96. 16. To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters. Labels: historical, transitive 17. To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them. 18. To kill (someone). Labels: slang, transitive Example: I'll put him up. 19. Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”). 20. To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery. Labels: UK, archaic, slang, transitive Example: 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: […]