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noun
Frame-up  n.  A conspiracy or plot for a malicious or evil purpose; especially, An act that incriminates a person on false evidence. (Slang)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Frame-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... up no finer than one syllable. But I'll shorten up the dose sufficient for your understandin' to grasp. It's this way: D'you know what a frame-up is?" ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

... nerve, that kid!" the sandy-haired one declared to his fellows. "Didn't care a whoop for publicity—did you fellows get that? I'd been wondering if it wasn't some frame-up, but it's on the level. ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... the same hotel in the United States. Consider the rifle found under the floor of the hut; and, having weighed all these points judicially, Wessex, tell me frankly, if in the whole course of your experience, you have ever met with a more perfect frame-up?" ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer

... fellow-convicts that they would not have permitted him to bet an ounce of Bull Durham on a bed-bug race—and bed-bug racing was a great sport with the convicts; (b) I was the dog that had been given a bad name: (c) for his frame-up, Cecil Winwood needed the dogs with bad names, the lifetimers, the desperate ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... dishonesty of the race, for horsemen believe that "there never was an honest horse-race," and the followers of the prize ring are constantly suspicious that the fight will be "fixed." The first question they ask after the decision of the referee is generally, "Was it a frame-up?" The moral power of baseball, tennis, football and the other most popular sports, is in the confidence that the game is fairly played. This fairness of the game is the widest extended school of ethical culture that the American and British ...
— The Evolution of the Country Community - A Study in Religious Sociology • Warren H. Wilson

... Laurie, seeking to divert him, "you may give me the details Shaw had to skip. How the dickens did you happen to start this frame-up, anyhow?" ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan



Words linked to "Frame-up" :   falsification, falsehood, setup



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