subs. (colloquial).—1.  Port; bearing; carriage.

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  1890.  T. C. CRAWFORD, English Life, 147. They [English soldiers] have a SET-UP not to be found in any of the soldiers of the Continental armies.

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  2.  (American).—A TREAT (q.v.) to SET-UP = to ‘STAND SAM’: cf. SET-DOWN.

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  1887.  T. STEVENS, Around the World on a Bicycle, 57. They … threaten to make him ‘SET ’EM UP’ every time he tumbles in hereafter.

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  Adv. (American).—Conceited.

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