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tie-up, n. (a.)|ˈtaɪʌp|
[f. tie up: tie v. 11.]
I. Something tied up, or used for tying up.
†1. = tie-wig. Obs.
1714C. Johnson Country Lasses ii. i, The last tye-up I sold you was as light and bright as silver..with a fine flowing large open curl.
2. a. A ribbon with which some part of a child's dress is tied or fastened up.
1896Blackw. Mag. Oct. 520/2 The little ones..rejoice in clean ‘bishops’ and ‘tie-ups’ of various hues. 1909Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 7/1 Brief drawing-room appearances in a nurse's arms with robes and tie-ups—blue for a boy, pink for a girl.
b. A (makeshift) garter.
1970R. Hill Clubbable Woman i. 5 One stocking was down. His tie-up hung loose round his ankle. 1976E. Dunphy Only a Game? v. 139 Laying the shirts out before the game, making sure the lads have chewing gum, tie-ups, tea at half-time.
3. a. An animal tied up as a bait for a beast of prey.
1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 27 Where's the chap with the buffalo—where is our tie-up? Ibid., It will be an awful sell if there is no tie-up, and the tiger happens to go by.
b. A building or stall in which cattle are tied up for the night. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1851J. S. Springer Forest Life 82 At the further end of the ‘tie-up’ he thinks he hears a little clattering noise. 1883Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1882 49 Those who have not the convenience for a barn cellar can save the manure very well by a tight floor in the tie-up. 1930W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 117 The cows were still in the tie-up. 1952E. Caldwell Lamp for Nightfall iii. 32 They constructed a chicken house..and installed six tie-ups in the dairy barn. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 2 Feb. 17/1 The property..includes a farmhouse, two cottages and farm buildings in good condition with tie-up accommodation for 80 cows.
4. Bookbinding. pl. Tapes or ribbons attached to a portfolio, book-cover, etc., as a fastening.
1896D. Reeves' Catal. Sept. 11/1 Parchment, with silk tie-ups. 1902Ibid. Jan. 10/2, 4 sheets and a plan of London, 1572,..in portfolio with tie ups, 21s.
II. Act of tying up, or state of being tied up.
5. slang.
a. A finish, conclusion, ‘wind-up’.
b. Pugilism. A knock-out blow, a ‘finisher’: cf. tie v. 11 g.
1818Sporting Mag. II. 211 He knobbed his adversary well, and floored him by a smart tye-up at the fourth buttonhole. 1829Ibid. XXIV. 99 By way of a tie up to the concern..the Ladies' Purse of 50{pstlg} for the beaten horses was offered.
6. A stoppage of work or business, esp. on account of a lock-out or strike; a stoppage of transport, a traffic hold-up. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1889Sci. Amer. 19 Jan. 32/3 In the event of a ‘tie-up’, or strike. 1894Times 14 July 7/1 [The Great Northern Pacific Railroad] could not..afford to face a tie-up. 1903Westm. Gaz. 30 June 11/3 No such ‘tie-up’ has ever before been known in the American cotton industry. 1904N.Y. Tribune 29 Oct. 1 An accident to one of the motor cars caused a tie-up of the southbound trains. 1923C. R. Cooper Under Big Top xi. 227 Add to all this the handicaps of weather, of railroad tie-ups [etc.]. 1943Coast to Coast 1942 181 Old McAlister had made a reference to some trouble on the Brisbane waterfront that threatened a temporary tie-up in the shipping of produce. 1962E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xxiv. 183, I myself saw new motors and parts piled up unprotected in the weather and damaged or ruined because of transport tie-ups or lack of storage facilities. 1977Time 18 July 14/2 Tie-ups extending for 30 miles are almost normal.
7. a. A condition of being ‘tied up’; entanglement.
1906Statesman (Calcutta) 30 Sept. 3/7 She had no desire, she said, to ‘get into any more domestic tie ups’.
b. A connection or association. Cf. tie v. 11 j.
1927Daily Express 7 Mar. 11/5 There is a tie-up, too, over this firm with the gramophone records. Every record of the ‘Happiness Boys’ is an advertisement for Happiness Chocolates. 1938F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 18 Apr. (1964) 28, I had made the mental tie-up that work equals something unpleasant. 1945E. Daly House without Door xi. 118 It's quite an interesting tie-up... The Locke case and the Gregson murder case. 1960Guardian 27 Sept. 8/4 The Labour Party..has..an out-of-date tie-up with the trades unions. a1963L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) vii. 220 The modern astrological tendency..to seek tie-ups between astrology and psychological knowledge. 1974S. Gulliver Vulcan Bulletins 32 ‘How the hell did he get in with the Libyans in the first place?’ I asked. ‘Old school tie-ups,’ said Selby.
c. A telecommunication link or network. U.S.
1927Sci. Amer. July 37/2, 27 stations..were connected to the battery of microphones in front of the Capitol. This record tie-up of transmitters was surpassed..when President Coolidge addressed a joint session of Congress..through a network of 42 broadcasters. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 24 Aug. 3/5 (heading) Western Union speeds deliveries with tieup. 1940Nature 20 July 91/2 It is reported from Pittsburgh, Pa., that the Bell Telephone Co. has applied for a permit to install transmitters and receivers on what is called a ‘tie-up’ with existing telephone facilities.
III. 8. as adj. Constructed by tying up.
1881Cheq. Career 43 Thirty whares [houses] with their usual tie-up fences around them formed the outside Pah. |
