Meaning of frameup | Babel Free

Definitions

A false incrimination of an innocent person; a scheme to frame an innocent person for a crime.

Examples

“"What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what? You've chose the wrong man for a try-on of that sort."”

“In the provincial communications machinery repair factory, the cadres, workers and veteran models who had once been persecuted and falsely charged began to play an active role in production after the cadre policy was carried out.[…]In Hsinping County as many as 22,000 people were involved in these political frameups. Among these people there were leading cadres at the county, commune and brigade levels, ordinary cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants. Some were disabled or even beaten to death.”

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