Meaning of have up | Babel Free

Definitions

To accuse, arrest, try for a criminal act.

UK, idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“In the police courts it is not uncommon to hear that such and such low persons have been "had up" for "cat and kitten sneaking," i.e., stealing quart and pint pots.”

“"He broke a dog's leg with a stone, and there was some talk of having him up for it, but the people were afraid of him, and no one would prosecute."”

“2007, Saturday October 27, Don't write off religion - it can be the key to a stable family, by Anne Karpf in The Guardian If Richard Dawkins had his way, a fair number of you and, as it happens, me, would be had up for child abuse. According to him, that's what religious indoctrination of children by their parents is.”

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