cover-up

1. 1.

   concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public

   Broaderconcealment

   Narrowerblue wall of silence

Questions about cover-up

What does cover-up mean?

cover-up means "concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public".

How many syllables are in cover-up?

cover-up has 3 syllables: cov-e-r-up. The stress falls on "cov". In IPA it is /ˈkʌvɚˌʌp/.

Is cover-up a common word?

cover-up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.