Usually means: Scheme designed to deceive someone.
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  1. put-up job: Merriam-Webster
  2. put-up job, put-up job: Collins English Dictionary
  3. put-up job: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. put-up job: Wiktionary

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  1. put-up job: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (put-up job)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) An attempt to trick, deceive, or con someone.

Similar:
put-up, put-on, trick, wind-up, ruse, stitch-up, deceit, fakeout, imposition, stuff-up, more...

Opposite:
legitimate, genuine, authentic, bonfide

Types:
con, scam, fraud, swindle, cheat, hoax, racket, more...

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Similar:
put-up, put-on, trick, wind-up, ruse, stitch-up, deceit, fakeout, imposition, stuff-up, more...

Opposite:
legitimate, genuine, authentic, bonfide

Types:
con, scam, fraud, swindle, cheat, hoax, racket, more...



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