From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishframe-upˈframe-up noun [countable] SCCa plan to make someone seem guilty of a crime which they did not do SYN set-up
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frame-up• The whole thing was a Commie frame-up.• By now he was under no illusions about the reason for the frame-up.• By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest.• But he has no direct evidence of the frame-up. 