"___ up or shut up!"

The answer

PUT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PUT answer page.

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PUT

Every other clue in this collection answered by PUT, most used first.

• Place - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Deposit - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Set (down) - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "To ___ it mildly ..." - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Call's counterpart - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ 'er there!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Impose - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Stock option - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
• Wall Street option - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Express - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Placed - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• __ up with; tolerate - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "Let me ___ it this way..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Postpone, with "off" - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Situate - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Stay __ (don't move) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Defer, with "off" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Delay, with "off" - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Shot ___ (track-and-field event) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Wager - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Extinguish, with "out" - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Bit of shut-eye - NAP, used 19 times
• Shut out - BAN, used 12 times
• Shut down - END, used 11 times
• Not shut, poetically - OPE, used 9 times
• Shut out - BAR, used 9 times
• "Shut yer ___!" - YAP, used 8 times

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