"fit up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-fit up.ogg [Australia] Forms: fits up [present, singular, third-person], fitting up [participle, present], fitted up [participle, past], fitted up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fit up (third-person singular simple present fits up, present participle fitting up, simple past and past participle fitted up)
  1. (criminology, slang) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Criminology Synonyms (conspire to incriminate): frame Translations (cause a person to appear guilty): παγιδεύω (pagidévo) (Greek), подставля́ть (podstavljátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), подста́вить (podstávitʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-fit_up-en-verb-GF~b~R80 Topics: criminology, human-sciences, law, sciences Disambiguation of 'conspire to incriminate': 91 5 4 Disambiguation of 'cause a person to appear guilty': 70 16 14
  2. To furnish with suitable things; to prepare; to fit out. Derived forms: fit-up
    Sense id: en-fit_up-en-verb-Su-7iR2b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 55 18 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 29 52 19
  3. (obsolete) To create a set or performance venue; to make a venue ready for a performance. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-fit_up-en-verb-cXIqsteG

Inflected forms

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