setup
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- noun
- /ˈsɛtʌp/
- Now that he thought about it, the setup was probably designed to intimidate him.
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Watch on YouTubeWow, no one believes this is a setup at all.
- Wow, no one believes this is a setup at all.
- What The thing is this The thing is this it's a setup, but Biden them can't say it's a setup because they know he's a crackhead.
- Like what was the cause of that is that he does the actual heist that the crooked cop wants them to do, but there's some falsehoods in it because it's a setup.
- I just know she that it was a setup and and remember they they tried to kill me this same weekend.
Examples
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So this whole thing was a setup just to get information out of me?
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This whole thing's a setup, a scam, a frame job.
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This was all one big setup, huh?
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Of course, I knew what this setup was all about.
Fiction book (1993) -
Wow, no one believes this is a setup at all.
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He said the whole trial was a setup.
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Tango and Cash insist... ... they are victims of a setup by criminal figures... ...aimed at taking the two cops out of action.
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Romney knows what a setup this is and how it favors the GOP.
Blog text (15) -
Inside another, troops found explosives rigged to a transceiver, a setup presumably designed to implicate U.S. forces in the demolition of the mosque.
Academic text (2007) -
The police discovered that the evidence against him was fabricated as part of a setup to frame him for a crime he didn't commit.
Synonyms
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The act of trapping people or animals with tricks and traps
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An act of falsely accusing someone by making fake evidence against them
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A secret plan to trick people by making something seem accidental
Antonyms
How Deceptive
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- Informal
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- NSFW
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Setup The word comes from the phrase set up, where set means 'to put' and up shows action. So to 'set someone up' was to put them in a false place or a 'trap', which is why a setup can mean a trick to make someone look guilty.