FRAME UP meaning: Falsely incriminate someone as guilty

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frame-up: Merriam-Webster
frame-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
frame-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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frame-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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frame-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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frame up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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frame up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (frame up)

▸ verb: (transitive, construction) To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
▸ verb: (transitive) To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.

Similar:

frame, frame out, found, build up, erect, superstruct, construct, substruct, raise, put up, more...

Opposite:

exoneration, acquittal, clearing

Types:

railroading, set up, entrapment, persecution, more...

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