1. A plan to falsely implicate someone in a crime by planting evidence or manipulating circumstances
   "He claimed the charges were a fit-up by his rivals";
   - stitch-up [Brit, informal]

1. Make someone get in trouble by setting a trap or planting false or deliberately misleading evidence
   "The innocent man was fitted up by the police";
   - ensnare, entrap, frame, set up [informal], stitch up [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: fit-ups, fitting up, fits up, fitted up

Type of: cozen [literary], deceive, delude, lead on

Encyclopedia: Fit-up