Definition of "put up"

put up

adjective
not comparable
1. Alternative form of put-up
verb
third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up
1. (transitive) To place in a high location.
2. (transitive) To hang; to mount.
3. (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
4. (transitive, idiomatic, used with "to") To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
5. (transitive, idiomatic) To store away.
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  “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, […], book VIII
6. (transitive, idiomatic) To house; to shelter; to take in.
  1. (reflexive, archaic) To stop at a hotel or a tavern for entertainment.
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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
7. (transitive, idiomatic) To present, especially in "put up a fight".
8. (transitive) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
  Quotations
  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 […], 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
9. (transitive) To provide funds in advance.
  Quotations
  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
10. (transitive) To build a structure.
  Quotations
  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 (fiction)
  They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
  1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell
11. (transitive) To make available; to offer.
  Quotations
  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, 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
12. (hunting, transitive) To cause (wild game) to break cover.
  Quotations
  "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
13. (transitive, food and drink, idiomatic) To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
  Quotations
  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, page 187
14. (US, Canada, transitive, sports, idiomatic) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard..
  Quotations
  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
15. (transitive, printing, historical) To set (matter) in capital letters.

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