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set-up
noun- an organisation or establishment UK
- MILLIGAN: Nosey, ain’t he? TAYLOR: Wouldn’t you be, if you walked into this set up? — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 85, 1959
- an arrangement, organisation or situation US, 1890
- What sort of set-up have the Yanks got over there, anyway? — Beale, 1984
- a scheme for the entrapment of a criminal or the incrimination of an innocent US, 1968
- [H]e claimed republicans were behind a pipe bomb attack on his car but they denied it, saying it was a set-up. — The Guardian, 10 January 2001
- the equipment used to inject a drug US
- The needle had found a vein, and Paddy, with setup firm at his hip, drew his real red blood into the gleaming syringe, where it lost color in boiled heroin. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 230, 1952
- a place setting at a dining table US, 1934
- How many set-ups for the Smith banquet? — Albert Leechman, 1984
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