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stand up
verb- to fail to keep a social appointment or romantic engagement with someone US, 1902
- Bob, the rotter who stood her up when she waited for him at a tube station with a pound of sausages. — The Guardian, 6 February 2001
- to refuse to co-operate when questioned by the police; to withstand pressure to confess US
- I’ve done time and I stood up. — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 75, 1971
- If things went bad, Paulie would stand up. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 20, 1979
- “I want to hear it ... will he or won’t he stand up?” — Gerard O’Neill, The Under Boss, p. 208, 1989
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 109, 1996
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