"phony up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phonies up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phonying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phonied up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phonied up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "phony up (third-person singular simple present phonies up, present participle phonying up, simple past and past participle phonied up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mock up"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 237:",
          "text": "They're in it up to their ears if they're phonying up a record of nonexistent checks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 -, Case Wagenvoord, Open Letters to George W. Bush:",
          "text": "He phonies up some documents, plants them with CBS, and doesn't say a word when the story breaks. He lets others dispute their authenticity while he remains in the shadows.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ken Oder, The Closing, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "The sheriff said, “What in hell makes you think Jones phonied up evidence?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To create a false version of something."
      ],
      "id": "en-phony_up-en-verb-oq9y0ZNh",
      "links": [
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "version",
          "version"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fake#Verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "phoney up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phony up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phonies up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phonying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phonied up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phonied up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "phony up (third-person singular simple present phonies up, present participle phonying up, simple past and past participle phonied up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "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": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mock up"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 237:",
          "text": "They're in it up to their ears if they're phonying up a record of nonexistent checks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 -, Case Wagenvoord, Open Letters to George W. Bush:",
          "text": "He phonies up some documents, plants them with CBS, and doesn't say a word when the story breaks. He lets others dispute their authenticity while he remains in the shadows.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ken Oder, The Closing, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "The sheriff said, “What in hell makes you think Jones phonied up evidence?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To create a false version of something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "version",
          "version"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fake#Verb"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "phoney up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "phony up"
}