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put up

verb

  1. To place in a high location.

    "Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins."

  2. To hang; to mount.

    "Many people put up messages on their refrigerators."

  3. To style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.

adjective

  1. (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.

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