line-upn.

1890 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Nov. 4/1 (heading) Early Rush For Seats to See the ‘Line Up’ and Game.

1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 3 June 1 Thus we have a line-up of corporations against the people.

1907 J. London Road 89 Then came the line-up, forty or fifty of us, naked as Kipling's heroes.

1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xviii. 224 He studied his trustee list now more purposefully than he had ever pored over his faculty line up.

1913 G. J. Kneeland Commercialized Prostitution N.Y. 62 Here they come to make deals for their women..or in vice resorts, to plan line ups when a ‘young chicken’ is about to be broken into the business.

1913 G. J. Kneeland Commercialized Prostitution N.Y. 62 A ‘line up’ is the ruin of a girl who flirts with men and accepts their advances and immoral suggestions. Finally she yields to an invitation to visit a furnished room and the word quickly passes among the ‘gang’. One by one the boys and men, perhaps only two or three, perhaps more, visit the room.

1914 J. B. Bickersteth Land of Open Doors 172 Guess I'm in the line up for hell all right—with no return ticket either.

1915 Policeman's Monthly Sept. 5 (caption) The famous ‘line-up’ at New York Police Headquarters.

1926 Clues Nov. 161/2 Lineup, suspects arrested the night before lined up for police inspection.

1928 A. G. Hays Let Freedom Ring 289 The prisoners were brought before witnesses—not in a line-up with others of the same general type but separately.

1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. xviii. 197 But she didn't know the line-up... It's Bauer that knows that, because Bauer's going to do the job.

1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xxvi. 292 He knew the whole line-up from old man Plato to Bergson.

1938 Amer. Speech 13 71/1 Line-up, a record of all expected train movements for the day in the section where the gang is working.

1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 Jan. 3 A police line-up.

1955 A. J. McCarthy Jazzbook 1955 39 The traditional line-up of trumpet, clarinet, trombone, piano, banjo, string bass and drums.

1967 Word Study Mar. 1/2 To the general public, the English teacher is the witness qualified to identify the felon in a linguistic lineup.

1968 Radio Times 28 Nov. 55/4, 11.10. Late Night Line-Up. A last look around the daily scene.

1970 Language 46 317 The negative and positive values of time refer to the computer ‘line up’ point.

1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 11/3 This was the basic line-up which became the Domino band after the success of ‘The Fat Man’.

1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed v. 52 The phrase ‘line-up’..was normally used to describe the queue of boys waiting to have sexual intercourse in one of the ‘gang bangs’.