Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frame-up \Frame"-up`\, n. A conspiracy or plot for a malicious or evil purpose; especially, an act that incriminates a person on false evidence. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of frameup English)
WordNet
n. an act that incriminates someone on a false charge [syn: setup]
Usage examples of "frame-up".
After some browbeating from Goering, who could now pose as the fairest of judges, the blackmailing ex-convict, Schmidt, broke down in court and confessed that the Gestapo had threatened his life unless he implicated General von Fritsch - a threat, incidentally, which was carried out anyway a few days later - and that the similarity of names between Fritsch and Rittmeister von Frisch, whom he had actually blackmailed for homosexualism, had led to the frame-up.
Like Hillary, Kangas painted the various Clinton scandals as frame-ups, funded by shadowy, rightwing money men.
Her greed aroused by the calculating Blackie Rango, the Hag was getting the heist info for Blackie while purporting to be cooperating with Mort, and was acting as the go-between to arrange the frame-ups against Mort's mob which Blackie engineered!
If you should run into Reiner, don't talk about the Glendale woman frame-up.
He even intimated that this murder charge against her is the very neat result of a deliberate frame-up with you pulling the strings.
Wot fer did you detail dem two pikers, Miller and Swenson, to guard de skirt fer if it wasn't fer some special frame-up of yer own?
The mark of a good defense attorney is his ability to take any given set of facts and recast them in such a light that, presto change-o, as if by magic, what appeared to be absolute is turned into a frame-up or some elaborate conspiracy on the part of the police or government.
I don't know what your game is, but I'm just going to show you how little chance you'd stand of making this frame-up stick.