Send Up Meaning
(transitive, US, slang) To put in prison.
Example: The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.
The judge sent him up for three years
1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, 1997 Carroll & Graf edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 161:
"I guess you're a wise one, all right, but what's the use? I tell you we've got enough on you already to send you up. You might as well talk straight."
Used other than as an idiom: see send,‎ up.
Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.
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