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frame-up

A situation manipulated so that an innocent person appears to have committed a crime (so that the actual criminal can avoid blame or detection). A: "It's a frame-up, officer, I swear! I would never go to a seedy place like that!" B: "Oh yeah? Then why did we find your fingerprints there?" A: "I think a frame-up is our only option." B: "How? We just casually dump the dead body in that creep's trunk?" A: "Naturally, they had to drug Sarah if they wanted her at the center of the frame-up." B: "Right, so she would have no idea what actually happened that night."
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frameup

verb
See frame

frame-up

verb
See frame
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