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phoney up en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of phony up.
And it worked. He realized it was just like reading a lock and phoneying up an electronic ID for it.
2001, Peter Carnahan, The Ethnic Wars, →ISBN, page 30:If you take time to edit a person's answers or phoney up the story in any way, the public viewers, millions of them throughout the country, are getting a distorted view of what is actually happening.
1972, United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Inquiry Into Alleged Rigging of Television News Programs, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Investigations .., 92-2, May 17, 18, and 23, 1972:Maybe we can use her we find a way to maintain that Silver's people phoneyed up the evidence we found.
2012, Harris Baseman, The President's Jihadist, →ISBN, page 404:
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