set-upn.

Etymology: < verbal phrase to set up: compare to set up at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈset-up.

1. An object set up or upright, an upright. Also spec. a stand or display at a carnival, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [noun] > vertical object or part

upright1742

set-up1841

upstand1847

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] > place for public shows > carnival

set-up1925

1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 264/1 The set-ups on the rail with the line fixed.

1841 Guide to Trade, Baker 30 Set-ups..are four-sided oblong pieces of beech of proper dimensions. They are placed on both sides, the back, and in the front of the oven, to keep the loaves in their places.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Set up,..the steam-ram used in the squeezer which operates on the loup or ball of iron from the puddling-furnace. The action is to up-set or condense longitudinally the bloom.

1925 C. R. Cooper Lions 'n' Tigers v. 135 Mike..responded almost immediately,..returning to his various ‘stands’ and ‘set-ups’ as though he had never been away. Mike is still on the job with the circus.

1938 E. Caldwell Southways 53 ‘You win the set-up!’ Bess cried, ducking under the railing. ‘It's all yours! Go on in there and take it!’

a. The way in which something is organized, arranged, or constituted; an organization, arrangement, system, or situation; U.S., personal bearing or carriage; Billiards, etc., a position of the balls (e.g. as left by the last player) from which it is easy to score.Set-up occurs in a vague and indefinite sense in a large number of contexts, but several reasonably distinct areas of use can be isolated: (a) a business or administrative structure or organization; also, an economic, social, or political system (both with reference to the system or the persons involved); (b) a domestic situation, as determined either by lifestyle or personal relationships; (c) a team (esp. in Sport); (d) the layout of some mechanical apparatus or equipment.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun] > manner of carrying body

bearinga1325

gesturec1410

gest1509

shapea1577

sitting1583

carriage1595

comportment1605

deportment1638

poise1771

set-up1889

tenue1892

the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > established order or system > way in which anything is organized

dispensation1633

establishment1799

set-up1889

rig-up1893

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > positions of balls

frame1868

nursery1869

plant1884

leave1885

set-up1889

snooker1924

pendulum position1927

1889 T. C. Crawford Eng. Life iv. vii. 147 They [sc. English soldiers] have a set-up not to be found in any of the soldiers of the Continental armies.

1895 Outing 26 66/1 I found an easy set-up and pocketed fifteen straight.

1922 Proc. IRE 10 249 Oscillograms of the essential current and voltage relations existing in the systems of the type illustrated by Figures 1 and 2 were obtained with the set up of apparatus illustrated in Figures 5 and 6, respectively.

1928 Daily Express 12 Mar. 13/2 The national set-up of motion picture chairmen.

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Oct. 8/2 It develops that this Princeton ‘set-up’ actually outrushed Michigan, to produce what..ought to be classed..as at least a Class B ‘upset’.

1932 ‘D. Frome’ By-pass Murder v. 39 Servants..belong to that..class of people whose public and private lives have no connection with each other... Publicly and privately their set-ups are as different as Fulham Road and Grosvenor Square.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 1/1 They provided the set-up for the conspiracy. They helped organize the groups responsible for bombings, sluggings and strikes.

1939 Lancet 14 Oct. 837/2 In place of endless gadgets we now have a few standard ‘set ups’ round which limbs to suit any particular amputee can be constructed.

1942 Archit. Rev. 92 52/2 The reason for this must be found in the general economic set-up of these countries.

1943 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. (rev. ed.) v. 403 Other workmen.., learning of our set-up, asked us to take them on.

1946 E. G. Webber Johnny Enzed in Italy 9 Nice set up you've got here, Dig.

1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy iii. 48 Before we know where we are we shall have the best possible world and the whole Leibnitian set-up.

1951 Sport 27 Jan. 7/1 The transfer had had full notice in the Press and yet he was shown included in the home set-up.

1952 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art xiii. 233 What the work of art ‘expresses’, in an emotional sense, depends very largely on what the spectator brings, in the way of an emotional set-up, to the work of art.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie 7 But these people were jerks for the most part and, after an initial period of fascination, I cooled off on the setup.

1958 Times 19 May 11/2 At the time of the battle of Marathon the Athenians had..a rather inefficient command set-up.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xi. 191 In a full~scale studio ‘telephone conversation’ set-up it is usual to have two microphones, one normal and the other with a filter in the circuit.

1962 J. Ludwig in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 254 What a set-up for those two kids! Jimmy would spend a fortune on Shirley, but Maxie would spend the night.

1971 Physics Bull. Sept. 513/1 Multinational Data, a joint setup linking ICL with the French Compagnie International pour l'Informatique and the American Control Data Corporation.

1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xi. 122 A fellow..offered us a job. This was the set-up and..we jumped at it.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 295 Burke is now far the most powerful of the Prime Minister's confidants, and has got Harold tightly integrated into the Whitehall set-up.

1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 3/5 The family atmosphere certainly grips those who come from abroad, many of whom can find nothing to compare with the set~up in their own countries.

b. Computing. The arrangement of interconnections and setting of parameters in a computer, esp. an analogue one, necessary for the performance of a particular calculation.

ΚΠ

1935 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 79 67 A second diagram is then drawn up showing the various gear ratios, positive directions of rotation of the various shafts, [etc.].., and from this second diagram the actual set-up of the machine is made.

1945 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 240 277 After a few days of operation the ‘set-up’ time per solution became tolerably small.

1952 G. A. Korn & T. M. Korn Electronic Analog Computers ii. 32 A number of computer laboratories have successfully used so-called setup sheets as an intermediate step between the preparation of the block diagram and the actual computer setup.

1970 D. E. Hyndman Analog & Hybrid Computing iv. 82 A considerable amount of time is generally required to patch and check out a problem set-up.

c. The arrangement of guns, decoys, etc., for shooting wildfowl.

ΚΠ

1939 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 7/4 Mr. Leichhardt has directed them to..examine the shooting ‘set-ups’ at the various lodges.

1957 R. Scharff Compl. Duck Shooter's Handbk. iv. 105 You'll get more ducks if you have some goose decoys in your setup.

1973 G. Gresham Compl. Wildfowler x. 150 Some days the birds just won't decoy properly. They..pitch in before they reach your setup.

d. Cinematography. (See quot. 1959.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > design and composition

mise-en-scène1909

set-up1941

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 284 A director..worrying..about the camera set-ups.

1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up i. 17 In motion pictures, where the scene is shot from each angle separately in different lighting set-ups and schemes, the lighting effect can be designed to be complementary to the make-up.

1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 128/1 Set-up, the arrangement of the scenery, props, performers, lights, microphones and cameras for a particular shot.

1963 Movie Feb. 31/1 The open court scenes are presented within a framework of two medium close camera set-ups.

1976 C. Larson Muir's Blood xviii. 101 He got here at a quarter after nine. We won't get our first setup before noon.

e. The difference between the maximum and minimum heights of a water surface tilted by wind action.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > level of > difference when tilted by wind

set-up1951

1951 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 46 373/1 An attempt was made to establish the relationship between set-up and the depth of water for the case where waves were present.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 235/1 The intertidal zone is not a simple transition but rather a zone of maximum energy, whose peak level ranges through the tide cycle (plus storm-wave ‘setup’).

3. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). In Boxing, a fighter who can be easily defeated by his opponent (with the implication that he has been deliberately chosen on these grounds); gen., an opponent who is easy to defeat; a thing that is easily overcome or accomplished, a ‘push-over’. spec. in Tennis, a ball that is easy to hit or smash.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy > person or thing easily overcome or dealt with

easy game1896

soft touch1924

set-up1926

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of

bruiser1744

ruffian1791

in-fighter1812

punisher1812

nobber1821

receiver general1821

slogger1829

slogster1881

ham1888

slaughterer1896

pushover1908

bum1917

mauler1920

palooka1920

round heel1926

set-up1926

powder puff1931

spoiler1948

kick-boxer1978

stiff1989

1926 R. Hughes in Cosmopolitan Feb. 44/2 A guy was tellin' me that set-ups are has-beens or never-wases who get paid to stand up just long enough to be knocked out.

1926 Clues Nov. 162/2 Set-up, something easy; soft.

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Sept. 1/2 Blaine himself did not take him [sc. Chapple] seriously, considered his opposition a ‘set-up’.

1946 College Topics (Univ. of Va.) 7 Dec. 3/1 It must not be forgotten that Georgia had pretty much of a set-up as far as the schedule was concerned and it would have been a real surprise if Georgia had been beaten.

1950 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Mar. b 22/4 Marciano has fought a string of set-ups, and there are few known boxers on La Starza's list.

1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers vi. 63 I went after him anyway, tooth and nail. It was easy. Ron was a perfect set-up.

1961 Times 18 May 5/2 He is well aware that the best players never miss a ‘set~up’.

1969 New Yorker 14 June 44/3 Graebner could now probably explode one. He has what is almost a set up on his power side.

4. U.S. colloquial. The glass, ice, soda, etc., required for mixing a drink, which is served to customers, who supply their own spirits, in unlicensed premises.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > utensils for

wine basketc950

faucet?a1400

claretc1440

tilter1630

simpulum1672

worm1681

valentia1688

screw1697

bottle screw1699

corkscrew1720

cyathus1768

toddy ladle1807

valinch1823

champagne fountain1835

wine-wagon1848

beer-tray1862

beer-pull1864

oenochoe1871

bottle opener1872

kovsh1884

toddy-lifter1894

set-up1930

beer-mat1939

1930 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Dec. 11/1 If the club did not ban liquor drinking on the premises and cease serving ‘set-ups’ its lease would be in danger.

1944 C. Himes Cotton gonna kill me Yet in Black on Black (1973) 197 You pays two bucks to get in this joint, fo' bucks for a half-pint grog, two bucks for a coke setup.

1954 F. P. Keyes Royal Box xiii. 186 But Herb asked did I want to turn him into a lone drinker, and where was the icebox, he could make his own setups, and the first thing I knew we were sitting at the table drinking ice-cold highballs.

1964 Listener 19 Nov. 803/3 The head waiter will probably relieve him of the bottle, place it on his table, and then serve him unlimited quantities of what are called ‘set-ups’ to make it palatable. These are the tonic-water, the ice, the soda, or whatever it is.

1973 W. McCarthy Detail i. 65 He looked over to the sideboard and saw a complete assortment of liquors, rums and set-ups.

5. U.S. colloquial. A place- or table setting at a restaurant; the dishes, cutlery, etc., which make up this.

ΚΠ

1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 48 Set up, table eating utensils.

1978 J. D. MacDonald Empty Copper Sea iii. 34 He led us to a corner booth set up for four, whipped away the extra setups.

6. colloquial (originally U.S.). A scheme or trick whereby an innocent person is caused to incriminate himself or a criminal is caught red-handed; a ‘frame-up’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [noun] > instance > to implicate someone

frame-up1899

frame1914

set-up1968

1968 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Oct. (Mag.) 28/3 That's how the narcs get most guys on possession of narcotics—through set-ups.

1970 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed iv. 78 A set-up crossed my mind, but Jesus, who cared if it was a set-up or not, we were still busted.

1973 Black Panther 7 Apr. 8/2 As he was bringing the food inside he noticed the driver of the truck had turned and was running away. Grady immediately realized it was all a set-up.

1978 J. Gardner Dancing Dodo xxix. 236 Arthur's clean... It was a set-up... I had him checked like you'd check a dodgy engine.

Compounds

set-up man n. (a) U.S. (see quot. 1953); (b) North American a man who sets up machinery or equipment.

ΚΠ

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie i. 18 They are always looking for a ‘setup man’, someone to plan jobs and tell them exactly what to do.

1954 Time 12 Apr. Job enlargement (a phrase coined by Yale's Human Relations Expert Charles R. Walker) was formally born in 1943. On a trip through International Business Machine Corp.'s plant at Endicott, N.Y., I.B.M. President (now Chairman) Thomas J. Watson spotted a young woman standing idly by a milling machine. She explained that she was waiting for the ‘machine inspector’ (there was a ‘setup man’, whose task it was to adjust the machine for each new operation, and an inspector, who okayed the adjustment). Actually, she was able to adjust the machine herself, but it was against the plant rules to do so.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 48/2 (advt.) Foreman and set-up man, polyethylene film extrusion, for afternoon shift.

1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. f1/3 (advt.) Willing to train experienced set-up man who has leadership potential.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	set-up
释义	set-upn. Etymology: < verbal phrase to set up: compare to set up at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈset-up. 1. An object set up or upright, an upright. Also spec. a stand or display at a carnival, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [noun] > vertical object or part upright1742 set-up1841 upstand1847 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] > place for public shows > carnival set-up1925 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 264/1 The set-ups on the rail with the line fixed. 1841 Guide to Trade, Baker 30 Set-ups..are four-sided oblong pieces of beech of proper dimensions. They are placed on both sides, the back, and in the front of the oven, to keep the loaves in their places. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Set up,..the steam-ram used in the squeezer which operates on the loup or ball of iron from the puddling-furnace. The action is to up-set or condense longitudinally the bloom. 1925 C. R. Cooper Lions 'n' Tigers v. 135 Mike..responded almost immediately,..returning to his various ‘stands’ and ‘set-ups’ as though he had never been away. Mike is still on the job with the circus. 1938 E. Caldwell Southways 53 ‘You win the set-up!’ Bess cried, ducking under the railing. ‘It's all yours! Go on in there and take it!’ 2. a. The way in which something is organized, arranged, or constituted; an organization, arrangement, system, or situation; U.S., personal bearing or carriage; Billiards, etc., a position of the balls (e.g. as left by the last player) from which it is easy to score.Set-up occurs in a vague and indefinite sense in a large number of contexts, but several reasonably distinct areas of use can be isolated: (a) a business or administrative structure or organization; also, an economic, social, or political system (both with reference to the system or the persons involved); (b) a domestic situation, as determined either by lifestyle or personal relationships; (c) a team (esp. in Sport); (d) the layout of some mechanical apparatus or equipment. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun] > manner of carrying body bearinga1325 gesturec1410 gest1509 shapea1577 sitting1583 carriage1595 comportment1605 deportment1638 poise1771 set-up1889 tenue1892 the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > established order or system > way in which anything is organized dispensation1633 establishment1799 set-up1889 rig-up1893 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > positions of balls frame1868 nursery1869 plant1884 leave1885 set-up1889 snooker1924 pendulum position1927 1889 T. C. Crawford Eng. Life iv. vii. 147 They [sc. English soldiers] have a set-up not to be found in any of the soldiers of the Continental armies. 1895 Outing 26 66/1 I found an easy set-up and pocketed fifteen straight. 1922 Proc. IRE 10 249 Oscillograms of the essential current and voltage relations existing in the systems of the type illustrated by Figures 1 and 2 were obtained with the set up of apparatus illustrated in Figures 5 and 6, respectively. 1928 Daily Express 12 Mar. 13/2 The national set-up of motion picture chairmen. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Oct. 8/2 It develops that this Princeton ‘set-up’ actually outrushed Michigan, to produce what..ought to be classed..as at least a Class B ‘upset’. 1932 ‘D. Frome’ By-pass Murder v. 39 Servants..belong to that..class of people whose public and private lives have no connection with each other... Publicly and privately their set-ups are as different as Fulham Road and Grosvenor Square. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 1/1 They provided the set-up for the conspiracy. They helped organize the groups responsible for bombings, sluggings and strikes. 1939 Lancet 14 Oct. 837/2 In place of endless gadgets we now have a few standard ‘set ups’ round which limbs to suit any particular amputee can be constructed. 1942 Archit. Rev. 92 52/2 The reason for this must be found in the general economic set-up of these countries. 1943 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. (rev. ed.) v. 403 Other workmen.., learning of our set-up, asked us to take them on. 1946 E. G. Webber Johnny Enzed in Italy 9 Nice set up you've got here, Dig. 1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy iii. 48 Before we know where we are we shall have the best possible world and the whole Leibnitian set-up. 1951 Sport 27 Jan. 7/1 The transfer had had full notice in the Press and yet he was shown included in the home set-up. 1952 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art xiii. 233 What the work of art ‘expresses’, in an emotional sense, depends very largely on what the spectator brings, in the way of an emotional set-up, to the work of art. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie 7 But these people were jerks for the most part and, after an initial period of fascination, I cooled off on the setup. 1958 Times 19 May 11/2 At the time of the battle of Marathon the Athenians had..a rather inefficient command set-up. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xi. 191 In a full~scale studio ‘telephone conversation’ set-up it is usual to have two microphones, one normal and the other with a filter in the circuit. 1962 J. Ludwig in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 254 What a set-up for those two kids! Jimmy would spend a fortune on Shirley, but Maxie would spend the night. 1971 Physics Bull. Sept. 513/1 Multinational Data, a joint setup linking ICL with the French Compagnie International pour l'Informatique and the American Control Data Corporation. 1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xi. 122 A fellow..offered us a job. This was the set-up and..we jumped at it. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 295 Burke is now far the most powerful of the Prime Minister's confidants, and has got Harold tightly integrated into the Whitehall set-up. 1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 3/5 The family atmosphere certainly grips those who come from abroad, many of whom can find nothing to compare with the set~up in their own countries. b. Computing. The arrangement of interconnections and setting of parameters in a computer, esp. an analogue one, necessary for the performance of a particular calculation. ΚΠ 1935 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 79 67 A second diagram is then drawn up showing the various gear ratios, positive directions of rotation of the various shafts, [etc.].., and from this second diagram the actual set-up of the machine is made. 1945 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 240 277 After a few days of operation the ‘set-up’ time per solution became tolerably small. 1952 G. A. Korn & T. M. Korn Electronic Analog Computers ii. 32 A number of computer laboratories have successfully used so-called setup sheets as an intermediate step between the preparation of the block diagram and the actual computer setup. 1970 D. E. Hyndman Analog & Hybrid Computing iv. 82 A considerable amount of time is generally required to patch and check out a problem set-up. c. The arrangement of guns, decoys, etc., for shooting wildfowl. ΚΠ 1939 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 7/4 Mr. Leichhardt has directed them to..examine the shooting ‘set-ups’ at the various lodges. 1957 R. Scharff Compl. Duck Shooter's Handbk. iv. 105 You'll get more ducks if you have some goose decoys in your setup. 1973 G. Gresham Compl. Wildfowler x. 150 Some days the birds just won't decoy properly. They..pitch in before they reach your setup. d. Cinematography. (See quot. 1959.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > design and composition mise-en-scène1909 set-up1941 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 284 A director..worrying..about the camera set-ups. 1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up i. 17 In motion pictures, where the scene is shot from each angle separately in different lighting set-ups and schemes, the lighting effect can be designed to be complementary to the make-up. 1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 128/1 Set-up, the arrangement of the scenery, props, performers, lights, microphones and cameras for a particular shot. 1963 Movie Feb. 31/1 The open court scenes are presented within a framework of two medium close camera set-ups. 1976 C. Larson Muir's Blood xviii. 101 He got here at a quarter after nine. We won't get our first setup before noon. e. The difference between the maximum and minimum heights of a water surface tilted by wind action. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > level of > difference when tilted by wind set-up1951 1951 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 46 373/1 An attempt was made to establish the relationship between set-up and the depth of water for the case where waves were present. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 235/1 The intertidal zone is not a simple transition but rather a zone of maximum energy, whose peak level ranges through the tide cycle (plus storm-wave ‘setup’). 3. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). In Boxing, a fighter who can be easily defeated by his opponent (with the implication that he has been deliberately chosen on these grounds); gen., an opponent who is easy to defeat; a thing that is easily overcome or accomplished, a ‘push-over’. spec. in Tennis, a ball that is easy to hit or smash. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy > person or thing easily overcome or dealt with easy game1896 soft touch1924 set-up1926 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of bruiser1744 ruffian1791 in-fighter1812 punisher1812 nobber1821 receiver general1821 slogger1829 slogster1881 ham1888 slaughterer1896 pushover1908 bum1917 mauler1920 palooka1920 round heel1926 set-up1926 powder puff1931 spoiler1948 kick-boxer1978 stiff1989 1926 R. Hughes in Cosmopolitan Feb. 44/2 A guy was tellin' me that set-ups are has-beens or never-wases who get paid to stand up just long enough to be knocked out. 1926 Clues Nov. 162/2 Set-up, something easy; soft. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Sept. 1/2 Blaine himself did not take him [sc. Chapple] seriously, considered his opposition a ‘set-up’. 1946 College Topics (Univ. of Va.) 7 Dec. 3/1 It must not be forgotten that Georgia had pretty much of a set-up as far as the schedule was concerned and it would have been a real surprise if Georgia had been beaten. 1950 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Mar. b 22/4 Marciano has fought a string of set-ups, and there are few known boxers on La Starza's list. 1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers vi. 63 I went after him anyway, tooth and nail. It was easy. Ron was a perfect set-up. 1961 Times 18 May 5/2 He is well aware that the best players never miss a ‘set~up’. 1969 New Yorker 14 June 44/3 Graebner could now probably explode one. He has what is almost a set up on his power side. 4. U.S. colloquial. The glass, ice, soda, etc., required for mixing a drink, which is served to customers, who supply their own spirits, in unlicensed premises. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > utensils for wine basketc950 faucet?a1400 claretc1440 tilter1630 simpulum1672 worm1681 valentia1688 screw1697 bottle screw1699 corkscrew1720 cyathus1768 toddy ladle1807 valinch1823 champagne fountain1835 wine-wagon1848 beer-tray1862 beer-pull1864 oenochoe1871 bottle opener1872 kovsh1884 toddy-lifter1894 set-up1930 beer-mat1939 1930 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Dec. 11/1 If the club did not ban liquor drinking on the premises and cease serving ‘set-ups’ its lease would be in danger. 1944 C. Himes Cotton gonna kill me Yet in Black on Black (1973) 197 You pays two bucks to get in this joint, fo' bucks for a half-pint grog, two bucks for a coke setup. 1954 F. P. Keyes Royal Box xiii. 186 But Herb asked did I want to turn him into a lone drinker, and where was the icebox, he could make his own setups, and the first thing I knew we were sitting at the table drinking ice-cold highballs. 1964 Listener 19 Nov. 803/3 The head waiter will probably relieve him of the bottle, place it on his table, and then serve him unlimited quantities of what are called ‘set-ups’ to make it palatable. These are the tonic-water, the ice, the soda, or whatever it is. 1973 W. McCarthy Detail i. 65 He looked over to the sideboard and saw a complete assortment of liquors, rums and set-ups. 5. U.S. colloquial. A place- or table setting at a restaurant; the dishes, cutlery, etc., which make up this. ΚΠ 1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 48 Set up, table eating utensils. 1978 J. D. MacDonald Empty Copper Sea iii. 34 He led us to a corner booth set up for four, whipped away the extra setups. 6. colloquial (originally U.S.). A scheme or trick whereby an innocent person is caused to incriminate himself or a criminal is caught red-handed; a ‘frame-up’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [noun] > instance > to implicate someone frame-up1899 frame1914 set-up1968 1968 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Oct. (Mag.) 28/3 That's how the narcs get most guys on possession of narcotics—through set-ups. 1970 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed iv. 78 A set-up crossed my mind, but Jesus, who cared if it was a set-up or not, we were still busted. 1973 Black Panther 7 Apr. 8/2 As he was bringing the food inside he noticed the driver of the truck had turned and was running away. Grady immediately realized it was all a set-up. 1978 J. Gardner Dancing Dodo xxix. 236 Arthur's clean... It was a set-up... I had him checked like you'd check a dodgy engine. Compounds set-up man n. (a) U.S. (see quot. 1953); (b) North American a man who sets up machinery or equipment. ΚΠ 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie i. 18 They are always looking for a ‘setup man’, someone to plan jobs and tell them exactly what to do. 1954 Time 12 Apr. Job enlargement (a phrase coined by Yale's Human Relations Expert Charles R. Walker) was formally born in 1943. On a trip through International Business Machine Corp.'s plant at Endicott, N.Y., I.B.M. President (now Chairman) Thomas J. Watson spotted a young woman standing idly by a milling machine. She explained that she was waiting for the ‘machine inspector’ (there was a ‘setup man’, whose task it was to adjust the machine for each new operation, and an inspector, who okayed the adjustment). Actually, she was able to adjust the machine herself, but it was against the plant rules to do so. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 48/2 (advt.) Foreman and set-up man, polyethylene film extrusion, for afternoon shift. 1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. f1/3 (advt.) Willing to train experienced set-up man who has leadership potential. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas set-up set-up adj. (a) established; (b) dialect and colloquial conceited, ‘stuck up’; (c) of type, composed. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] > founding or instituting > settled or established rootfastlOE stablec1290 institutec1325 sad1340 firmc1374 rooteda1393 stabledc1400 substantialc1449 well-foundeda1450 surec1475 standing1549 afloat1551 well-established1559 steadyc1571 naturalized1590 erected1603 established1642 instituted1647 settled1649 riveted1652 radicate1656 inrooted1660 institute1668 statuminated1674 planted1685 stablished1709 deep-seated1741 founded1771 set-up1856 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [adjective] set1837 set-up1856 1856 J. Kavanagh Rachel Gray iv. 66 Serve her right—the set up thing! 1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 116/1 Set-up type is also sometimes copied thus. extracted from setadj.¹ < n.1841 as lemmas
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set-upn.

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