Usually means: Make someone annoyed or defensive.
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  1. put someone's back up: Merriam-Webster
  2. put someone's back up, put someone's back up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. put someone's back up: Wiktionary
  4. put someone's back up: Dictionary.com

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  1. put someone's back up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (put someone's back up)

verb:  (idiomatic) Synonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.


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