put-up

1. 1.

   planned secretly

   “it was a put-up job”

   Similarplanned

Questions about put-up

What does put-up mean?

put-up means "planned secretly".

How many syllables are in put-up?

put-up has 2 syllables and divides as pu-t-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is put-up a common word?

put-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.