| 单词 | putter-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasputter-up putter-up n. (a) a person (occasionally an animal) who puts something up (in various senses) (see to put up at put v. Phrasal verbs 1); (b) slang a person who organizes a robbery or other criminal undertaking. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > organizer putter-up1796 mastermind1872 placer1928 Mr Big1940 1796 J. Watt Let. 9 Aug. in H. W. Dickinson Richard Trevithick (1934) ii.27 The wages mentioned..are the utmost we give to putters up of Engines. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 199 Putter up, the projector or planner of a put-up affair, as a servant in a gentleman's family, who proposes to a gang of housebreakers the robbery of his master's house. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 75 Hosiery Manufacture:..Putter-up. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Sept. 2/3 [The bull] is..a beast of burden, or a putter-up of flesh for the benefit of the Madrid butchers. 1929 C. Humphreys Great Pearl Robbery i. 12 The police knew that Grizard was the ‘putter-up’. 1975 M. Crichton Great Train Robbery ii. 18 Edward Pierce..accumulated sufficient capital to finance large-scale criminal operations, thus becoming what was called ‘a putter-up’. 1975 Country Life 6 Feb. 325/1 As a putter-up of game one cannot imagine the clumber out-doing the springer. 2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 24 July d9 I have a powerful urge to leave my desk and just get going on making gooseberry jam or pickling some eggs. It is an impulse that has passed down to me through generations of picklers, preservers, and putters-up. < as lemmas |
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