cover-up

[ kuhv-er-uhp ]

/ ˈkʌv ərˌʌp /

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noun

any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.

Also cov·er·up. any of various women's garments, as loose blouses, jump suits, caftans, or sarongs, worn over a swimsuit, exercise clothing, or the like.

Origin of cover-up

First recorded in 1925–30; noun use of verb phrase cover up

Words nearby cover-up

cover the field, cover up, cover version, cover-shoulder, cover-uncover test, cover-up, coverage, coverall, coverdale, covered bridge, covered wagon

Example sentences from the Web for cover-up

But, as is often the case, what may be equally as damning as the crime will be the cover-up.

The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero |Clive Irving |November 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In 2010, The New York Times ran a well-sourced story that helped to undermine the cover-up.

Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine |Clive Irving |August 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The nightmare is that suggestion of financial wrongdoing—or cover-up on behalf of his daughter—touches Juan Carlos.

Will Scandal Sink the Spanish Royal Family? |Tom Sykes |August 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And the changing story over time definitely suggests a cover-up.

Obama's Pentagon Covered Up War Crimes in Afghanistan, Says Amnesty International |Nico Hines, Sami Yousafzai |August 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Norman Tebbit, a Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, told the BBC on Sunday that there “may well have been” a cover-up.

Alleged U.K. Parliamentary Pedophile Ring Hushed Up for Decades |Nico Hines |July 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The demand for stores was a cover-up for things already done.

Talents, Incorporated |William Fitzgerald Jenkins
But it wouldn't do to leave a cover-up door like this standing open.

Winnie Childs |C. N. Williamson
“We can swing the cover-up afterwards all the way,” Taggert told him firmly.

What The Left Hand Was Doing |Gordon Randall Garrett
And Stanley Martin was plotting the next phase of the capture—the cover-up.

Anything You Can Do ... |Gordon Randall Garrett
If President Ferraro didn't know about the battleship, he must have been taken in by the cover-up job.

The Misplaced Battleship |Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

British Dictionary definitions for cover-up

cover-up

noun

concealment or attempted concealment of a mistake, crime, etc

verb cover up (adverb)

(tr) to cover completely

(when intr, often foll by for) to attempt to conceal (a mistake or crime) she tried to cover up for her friend

(intr) boxing to defend the body and head with the arms

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