send up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, up.
Example Sentences
- "Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%."
- "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."
- "He had more fun co-writing and directing two series for the BBC called Ripping Yarns (1976-79) in which Palin starred as a series of heroic characters in mock-adventure stories, among them Across the Andes by Frog, and Roger of the Raj, sending up interwar literature aimed at schoolboys."
- "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.""
Usage
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- Slang