COVER-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cover-up mean? 

• COVER-UP (noun)
  The noun COVER-UP has 1 sense:

1. concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public

  Familiarity information: COVER-UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COVER-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cover-up" is a kind of...):

concealing; concealment; hiding (the activity of keeping something secret)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cover-up"):

blue wall; blue wall of silence; wall of silence (the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers)

Derivation:

cover up (hide from view or knowledge)