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US
/ˈpʊˈtɑn/
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NOUN
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
How To Use put-on In A Sentence
- From the perspective of trade management, the Government to regulate the shop, bound by nothing wrong in law, regulations also put-on .
- And it was real happiness - nothing fake or put-on about it. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
- ) Finn's new crew are an even damper squib, a real Ziggy-by-numbers put-on. MUSIC FOR BOYS
- I like it far better than the town, for there isna a wheen duddie bairns to be crying after ane, as if ane were a warld's wonder, just because ane maybe is a thought bonnier and better put-on than their neighbours -- though, Jeanie, ye suld never be proud o 'braw claiths, or beauty neither -- wae's me! they're but a snare -- I ance thought better o'them, and what came o't? The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
- Because if not a put-on, then unquestionably the worst idea in the history of restauration. Times, Sunday Times
- She was a sharp-nosed woman with a put-on accent, well adapted to whining. PROSPECT HILL
- I always thought Paris was brilliant at marketing herself (and that a lot of her ditziness was a put-on). Sweatpantsmom
- Of the ones that do up the strap, about half have them so loose that they can put-on and remove the helmet without unbuckling .
- Their punkish stance is probably a put-on: doubtless their dads are commodities brokers.
- That the let's-put-on-a-show plot was age-old mattered not among lively performances, inventive comedy and barnstorming dance routines.