put-up

alternative put up

1. not comparableSecretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.

   None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.

   2013 April 3, Anurag Behar, “RTE and the activity trap”, in livemint.com, retrieved 27 Jun 2015

   3 more examples

   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."

   2006 April 7, Jim Geraghty, “Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short”, in CBS News, retrieved 27 Jun 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."

   2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, “British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist'”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 27 Jun 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.

   2012 June 23, Waylon Johnston, “Cleared of setting up theft scenario”, in Times of Malta, retrieved 27 Jun 2015

plural put-ups · alternative put up

1. Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.

   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.

   2012 April 25, “No Girls Gone Wild in Washington?”, in fitsnews.com, retrieved 27 Jun 2015