TO SEND UP, verb. phr. (American).To commit to prison; TO FULLY (q.v.).
1848. E. Z. C. JUDSON (Ned Buntline), The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, III. 7. Theyd blow on me for some of my work, and Id be SENT UP.
1879. Scribners, viii. 619. Some of them seem rather proud of the number of times they have been SENT UP.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. They SENT me UP for thirty days.
TO SEND DOWN (or AWAY), verb. phr. (university).1. To expel; and (2) TO RUSTICATE (q.v.).
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.
1863. H. KINGSLEY, Austin Elliot, i. 179. How dare you say deuce in my presence? You can GO DOWN, my Lord.
1891. LEHMANN, Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 89. Next day they were hauled and SENT down.
1891. Felstedian, April, 32. They sent him DOWN for two terms for smashing a shop window.
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).
See COVENTRY; DAYLIGHT; FLEA IN EAR; GREEN RIVER; OWLS; PACKING; SALT RIVER; UP.