Definition
To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
To store away.
To house; to shelter; to take in.
To present, especially in "put up a fight".
To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
In Context
- "I think someone put him up to it."
- "Be sure to put up the tools when you finish."
- "“As for your money,” replied Partridge, “I beg, sir, you will put it up; I will receive none of you at this time; for at present I am, I believe, the richer man of the two. […]"
- "We can put you up for the night."
- "That last fighter put up quite a fight."
- "They didn't put up much resistance."
- "People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples."
- "In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners."
- "The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96."