Verb
put up to (third-person singular simple present puts up to, present participle putting up to, simple past and past participle put up to)
(idiomatic) To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong.
There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose. Eddie Vedder
Men cannot be threatened into the kind of fight they will have to put up to win. They will have to be led. Michael Shaara
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. K.d. lang
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves. V. S. Naipaul
It was put up to keep people out of dragon hatching grounds. Source: Internet
First a prototype facility will be put up to gather the main design parameters for the full-scale plant. Source: Internet