send up

Verb

send up (third-person singular simple present sends up, present participle sending up, simple past and past participle sent up)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, up.
   • Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.
2. (transitive) To imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour.
   • The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.
   • It started out running adverts that sent up the products they were supposed to be promoting. Today you scarcely see an advert that isn't sending up itself.2004 November 18, William Cook, “All in the worst possible taste”, in The Guardian
3. (US, slang, transitive) To put in prison.
   • The judge sent him up for three years.
   • "I guess you're a wise one, all right, but what's the use? I tell you we've got enough on you already to send you up. You might as well talk straight."1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 161
4. (transitive) To cause (something, e.g. sparks) to erupt.
   • Where the metal touched the asphalt, it sent up a shower of sparks.