- send-up (n.)
[send-up 词源字典]
- "a spoof," British slang, 1958, from verbal phrase send up "to mock, make fun of" (1931), from send (v.) + up (adv.), perhaps a transferred sense of the public school term for "to send a boy to the headmaster" (usually for punishment), which is attested from 1821.[send-up etymology, send-up origin, 英语词源]