"phoney up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phoneys up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoneying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoneyed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoneyed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
      "expansion": "phoney up (third-person singular simple present phoneys up, present participle phoneying up, simple past and past participle phoneyed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "phony up"
        }
      ],
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Inquiry Into Alleged Rigging of Television News Programs, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Investigations .., 92-2, May 17, 18, and 23, 1972:",
          "text": "If you take time to edit a person's answers or phoney up the story in any way, the public viewers, millions of them throughout the country, are getting a distorted view of what is actually happening.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Peter Carnahan, The Ethnic Wars, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "And it worked. He realized it was just like reading a lock and phoneying up an electronic ID for it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Harris Baseman, The President's Jihadist, →ISBN, page 404:",
          "text": "Maybe we can use her we find a way to maintain that Silver's people phoneyed up the evidence we found.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of phony up"
      ],
      "id": "en-phoney_up-en-verb-IkMkcLnf",
      "links": [
        [
          "phony up",
          "phony up#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phoney up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phoneys up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoneying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoneyed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoneyed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "phoney up (third-person singular simple present phoneys up, present participle phoneying up, simple past and past participle phoneyed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "phony up"
        }
      ],
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Inquiry Into Alleged Rigging of Television News Programs, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Investigations .., 92-2, May 17, 18, and 23, 1972:",
          "text": "If you take time to edit a person's answers or phoney up the story in any way, the public viewers, millions of them throughout the country, are getting a distorted view of what is actually happening.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Peter Carnahan, The Ethnic Wars, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "And it worked. He realized it was just like reading a lock and phoneying up an electronic ID for it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Harris Baseman, The President's Jihadist, →ISBN, page 404:",
          "text": "Maybe we can use her we find a way to maintain that Silver's people phoneyed up the evidence we found.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of phony up"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "phony up",
          "phony up#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phoney up"
}