put up

Verb

put up (third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up)

1. (transitive) To place in a high location.
   • Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
   • Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.
2. (transitive) To hang; to mount.
   • Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
3. (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.

   Antonyms:

   let down

4. (idiomatic, transitive) To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
   • I think someone put him up to it.
5. (idiomatic, transitive) To store away.
   • 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. […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII

   Synonyms:

   put away

6. (idiomatic, transitive) To house; to shelter; to take in.
   • We can put you up for the night.
7. (archaic, intransitive) To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
   • Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204
   • "Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 10
8. (idiomatic, transitive) To present, especially in "put up a fight".
   • That last fighter put up quite a fight.
   • They didn't put up much resistance.
9. (transitive) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
   • By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […]
     VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I
   • Dionysius of Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without dore […]; he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
10. (transitive) To provide funds in advance.
    • Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
    • This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films
11. (transitive) To build a structure.
    • The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
    • They paved paradise and put up a parking lot1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell
12. (transitive) To make available; to offer.
    • The picture was put up for auction.
    • I put my first child up for adoption.