stitch-upnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈstɪtʃ.ʌp/us/ˈstɪtʃ.ʌp/UK slanga situation in which someone is deliberately made to look guilty of doing something that they did not do:
a police stitch-up
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Crime - general words
- carrying-on
- complicit
- complicity
- copycat
- crime
- drink-driving
- DWI
- foul play
- hate crime
- inside job
- juvenile delinquent
- loitering
- misdeed
- offense
- speeding
- trespass
- vagrant
- victimless
- war crime
- wrongdoing
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