(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
2006 Apr. 7, Jim Geraghty, "Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short," CBS News (retrieved 27 June 2015)Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."
2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, "British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist'," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 27 June 2015)Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."
2012 June 23, Waylon Johnston, "Cleared of setting up theft scenario," Times of Malta (retrieved 27 June 2015)A “romantically obsessed †Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident.
2013 Apr. 3, Anurag Behar "RTE and the activity trap," livemint.com (retrieved 27 June 2015)None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.
Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
2012 Apr. 25, "No Girls Gone Wild in Washington?," fitsnews.com (retrieved 27 June 2015)A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.
