“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. […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:
Archaic To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204:
"Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 10:
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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.1946, William Allen White, Autobiography, page 411:
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Idiomatic To present, especially in "put up a fight".
That last fighter put up quite a fight.
They didn't put up much resistance.
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To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […] VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
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.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
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To provide funds in advance.
Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:
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To build a structure.
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, […].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell:
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To make available; to offer.
The picture was put up for auction.
I put my first child up for adoption.
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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.2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 3, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (non-fiction), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 39:
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.2023 November 1, “'Western' on the move as diesel-hydraulics change hands”, in RAIL, number 995, page 24:
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Hobbies, Hunting, Lifestyle To cause (wild game) to break cover.
"By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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Idiomatic To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and/or pickling and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.1983, Audrey Borenstein, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America (non-fiction), Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 187:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, SportsCanada, US, Idiomatic To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
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.2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times:
The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96.2011 August 9, John Kreiser, “The Great One's 23 unbreakable records”, in NHL.com:
UK, Archaic, Slang To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery.
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: […]1856, The London Quarterly Review, volumes 98-99, page 104:
Of an event Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."2006 April 7, Jim Geraghty, “Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short”, in CBS News, retrieved 27 Jun 2015:
Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, “British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist'”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 27 Jun 2015:
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A “romantically obsessed ” Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident.2012 June 23, Waylon Johnston, “Cleared of setting up theft scenario”, in Times of Malta, retrieved 27 Jun 2015:
None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.2013 April 3, Anurag Behar, “RTE and the activity trap”, in livemint.com, retrieved 27 Jun 2015:
Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.2012 April 25, “No Girls Gone Wild in Washington?”, in fitsnews.com, retrieved 27 Jun 2015: