send up

send up

See also: sendup and send-up

English

Verb

send up (third-person singular simple present sends up, present participle sending up, simple past and past participle sent up)

1. (transitive) To imitate someone or something for the purpose of satirical humour.

   The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.

2. (transitive, US, slang) To put in prison.

   The judge sent him up for three years

   • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, 1997 Carroll & Graf edition, →ISBN, page 161:

     "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."

3. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see send,‎ up.

   Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.

Usage notes

• In all senses the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.
• In sense 2, the passive form is much more common.

Translations

to imitate someone or something for the purpose of satirical humour

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Russian: передразнивать (ru) (peredraznivatʹ), смешно́ изобража́ть (smešnó izobražátʹ)

to be put in prison

Russian: приговори́ть к тюремному заключению (prigovorítʹ k tjuremnomu zaključeniju)

Anagrams

• ends up, unsped, up-ends, upends, upsend