frameup
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frameup (plural frameups)
- A false incrimination of an innocent person; a scheme to frame an innocent person for a crime.
- Synonym: setup
- Hypernyms: put-up, put-up job
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what? You've chose the wrong man for a try-on of that sort."
- 1978 August 4 [1978 July 23], “Yunnan Reverses Verditcs on Large Number of Unjust Cases, Rehabilitates Many Cadres Persecuted and Falsely Charged by the 'Gang of four'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 151, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page E 10:
- In the provincial communications machinery repair factory, the cadres, workers and veteran models who had once been persecuted and falsely charged began to play an active role in production after the cadre policy was carried out. […] In Hsinping County as many as 22,000 people were involved in these political frameups. Among these people there were leading cadres at the county, commune and brigade levels, ordinary cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants. Some were disabled or even beaten to death.