fit up


verb(tr, adverb)
  1. (often foll by with) to equip or provide: the optician will soon fit you up with a new pair of glasses

  2. British slang to incriminate (someone) on a false charge; frame: he was fitted up for the bank job

nounfit-up
  1. theatre slang a stage and accessories that can be erected quickly for plays

  2. British slang a frame-up

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How to use fit up in a sentence

  • So I want you to fit up this roof of the kitchen exactly in the way you arranged the garden on the roof at Cherub Court.

    The Garret and the Garden | R.M. Ballantyne
  • For I imagine that anyone can, in five minutes, fit up an hypothesis quite as valuable as Mr. Humphreys'.

    Adventures in Criticism | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • When we return to Warsaw, I will fit up a studio, and we will live as in heaven.

    Hania | Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • It is much easier to fit up a proper apparatus of this kind, than most practical men imagine.

  • The company can command me for one thousand dollars cash beside to fit up their parlors if the organization is named for me.