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Have up

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  1. 1
    To accuse, arrest, try for a criminal act. UK, idiomatic, transitive

    "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."

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