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go up verb- to be sentenced to prison; to be sent to prison US, 1872
- One that went up for murder – he was an Army Sergeant. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- Louis was letting it become “we” to get next to Bobby and know what he was thinking, and because they were both in the life and had done state time, Bobby for shooting a man Bobby said pulled a gun on him instead of paying what he owed and went up on a manslaughter plea deal. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 54, 1995
- while acting, to miss your cue or forget a line US
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 107, 1973
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 115, 1981
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