From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English put something ↔ over phrasal verb 1 British English to succeed in telling other people your ideas, opinions, feelings etc The advert puts over the message clearly and simply: nuclear power is clean. 2 put one/something over on somebody informal to deceive someone into believing something that is not true or that is useless Nobody could put one over on him. → put → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus put over • She carried the Mayor's swivel chair, put it down over City Hall, and sat in it.