Definition of "frame-up" [frame•-up]

• Informal A scheme to incriminate an innocent person. (noun)
• Informal A contest or deliberation the outcome of which is fraudulently prearranged. (noun)

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• "That compares with 22% who are certain that it is a set up, and another 35% who said it was "probably" a frame-up, for a total of 57% who think it's likely he was set up."
• "He has called the charges a frame-up'' and says he is a legitimate businessman who never had any intention of selling weapons."
• "Now note three things: (a) Cecil Winwood was so detested by his fellow convicts that they would not have permitted him to bet an ounce of Bull Durham on a bedbug race — and bedbug racing was a great sport with the convicts; (b) I was the dog that had been given a bad name; (c) for his frame-up, Cecil Winwood needed the dogs with bad names, the lifetimers, the desperate ones, the incorrigibles."