frame-up

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frame-up

(frām′ŭp′)

n. Informal

1. A scheme to incriminate an innocent person.

2. A contest or deliberation the outcome of which is fraudulently prearranged.

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frame-up

1. a conspiracy to incriminate someone on a false charge

2. a plot to bring about a dishonest result, as in a contest

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frame′-up`

a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.

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Noun

frame-up - an act that incriminates someone on a false charge

setup

falsehood, falsification - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

frame-up

noun (Slang) false charge, set-up (slang), fabrication, fit-up (slang), trumped-up charge, put-up job He was innocent and the victim of a frame-up.

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Translations

frame-up

[ˈfreɪmʌp] N → trampa f, montaje m (para incriminar a algn)
it's a frame-up → aquí hay trampa, esto es un montaje

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frame-up

[ˈfreɪmˌʌp] n (fam) → montatura

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I'm not sayin' nothing about book-makers an' frame-ups that sometimes happen.

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The records can allow the petitioners to scrutinize each case for indications of excessive use of force by the police, frame-ups, cover-ups or other anomalies in waging the war on illegal drugs.

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Except for a radical reduction in acts of terrorism; thanks to the Armed Forces, there is no let-up in rampant corruption, smuggling, adulteration, graft, hoarding, black-marketing, police connivance in abductions and murder of the innocent, swindling, double-crossing and frame-ups and all sorts of mafias operating in Pakistan with the influential criminals getting away with blue murder amid an irresponsive judicial system and the political leadership routinely taking notice, ordering enquiries and expressing grief and sympathy with the affected, which is now looked upon with contempt by the sufferers; invariably the common man who is delivered nothing.

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We also discovered that a lot of their crimes were born out of frame-ups and their fight for survival.

If these prison cells could talk

Bucking up his workers, Hussain asked them to repose full trust in him as, according to him, the cases he was facing in London were merely frame-ups, which were bound to go nowhere.