Usually means: Arrange or prepare something beforehand.
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  1. put-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. put-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. put-up: Vocabulary.com
  5. put-up: Wordnik
  6. put-up: Wiktionary
  7. put-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. put-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. put-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Put-up, put-up: Dictionary.com
  11. Put-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. put-up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Put-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. put-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. put-up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. put-up: Rhymezone
  17. put-up: Mnemonic Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put-up, put-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (put-up)

adjective:  (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.]
noun:  Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.

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