TO SEND UP, verb. phr. (American).—To commit to prison; TO FULLY (q.v.).

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  1848.  E. Z. C. JUDSON (‘Ned Buntline’), The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, III. 7. They’d blow on me for some of my work, and I’d be SENT UP.

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  1879.  Scribner’s, viii. 619. Some of them seem rather proud of the number of times they have been SENT UP.

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  1888.  Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. They SENT me UP for thirty days.

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  TO SEND DOWN (or AWAY), verb. phr. (university).—1.  To expel; and (2) TO RUSTICATE (q.v.).

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  1714.  Spectator, 596. After this I was deeply in love with a milliner, and at last with my bedmaker, upon which I was SENT AWAY, or, in university phrase, rusticated for ever.

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  1863.  H. KINGSLEY, Austin Elliot, i. 179. How dare you say ‘deuce’ in my presence? You can GO DOWN, my Lord.

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  1891.  LEHMANN, Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 89. Next day they were hauled and SENT down.

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  1891.  Felstedian, April, 32. They sent him DOWN for two terms for smashing a shop window.

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  TO SEND IN, verb. phr. (old).—‘To drive or break in: Hand down the jemmy and SEND IT IN; apply the crow to the door and drive it in’ (GROSE).

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