send upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

send up (third-person singular simple present sends up, present participle sending up, simple past and past participle sent up)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send,‎ up.

   Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.

2. (transitive) To imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour.

   The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.

   • 2004 November 18, William Cook, “All in the worst possible taste”, in The Guardian‎:

     It started out running adverts that sent up the products they were supposed to be promoting. Today you scarcely see an advert that isn't sending up itself.

   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎:

     He had more fun co-writing and directing two series for the BBC called Ripping Yarns (1976-79) in which Palin starred as a series of heroic characters in mock-adventure stories, among them Across the Andes by Frog, and Roger of the Raj, sending up interwar literature aimed at schoolboys.

3. (transitive, US, slang) To put in prison.

   The judge sent him up for three years.

   • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 161:

     "I guess you're a wise one, all right, but what's the use? I tell you we've got enough on you already to send you up. You might as well talk straight."

4. (transitive) To cause (something, e.g. sparks) to erupt.

   Where the metal touched the asphalt, it sent up a shower of sparks.

使用する際の注意点

• In all senses the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.
• In sense 2, the passive form is much more common.

派生語

アナグラム

• ends up, unsped, up-ends, upends, upsend

別の表記

• sendup

語源

Deverbal from send up.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛndˌʌp/

名詞

send-up (plural send-ups)

1. A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.

   Coordinate terms: lampoon, parody, takeoff, travesty

   • 2006, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, page 115:

     The tired storyline, centered on a lesbian couple's search for a sperm donor, is irritatingly spoofish and lacks the subtlety that makes for great send-ups.

   • 2016 June 2, David Sims, “'Popstar': Celebrity Satire Done Right”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Popstar doesn’t quite reach This Is Spinal Tap levels of satire (few things could), but as a send-up of the mores of today’s celebrity-obsessed culture, it largely succeeds.

   • 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The animated sitcom, long a magnet for controversy, incurred the wrath of the current US administration for its brutal and graphic send-up of Donald Trump as a petty, micro-penised dictator, as well as parent company Paramount’s cowardly capitulations to him.

アナグラム

• ends up, unsped, up-ends, upends, upsend