Definition of put up

put up

verb

• to show. 2. to put in jeopardy (related to the old phrase "put it all on the table").

  Go head son, put your dough up.

  Last edited on Feb 13 2002. Submitted by P from MD, USA on Feb 13 2002.

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Other terms relating to 'put':
bout to put the beat down	Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
PIIYB	Definitions include: acronym for "put it in your butt".
pu put b*tch	Definitions include: a pimp's primary prostitute.
put	Definitions include: place down
put a cork in it	Definitions include: to be quiet; "shut up".
put all of (one's) eggs in one basket	Definitions include: to risk everything on a single unlikely event.
put a pin in	Definitions include: to delay a topic until a future time.
put a sock in it	Definitions include: to be quiet.
put away	Definitions include: to incarcerate.
put down	Definitions include: to kill an animal, usually due to injury, sickness, or disease.
put down some brown	Definitions include: to defecate liquid feces.
put in (one's) place	Definitions include: to deflate someone's over-inflated ego.
put in the buck	Definitions include: see in the buck.
put it	Definitions include: to swear, to promise that something you have done happened.
put lead in (one's) pencil	Definitions include: make one stronger.
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Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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