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To suddenly use a mask of superficial personality or emotion to cover your real one, around everyone or a certain people to make them either:

1. like you

2. dislike you

3. feel sorry for you, or

4. be downright confused.

Also can be referred to as two faced.
1. Jared is such a put-on when he brings me around his guys!

2. When she started crying and feeling sorry for herself, I could tell it was a put-on.
put-on by Xylophone September 18, 2012
fooling or deceiving somebody is a put-on.
You say David always changes his girlfriends...
come on~ that must be a put-on
put-on by Amos Lin May 2, 2008
This can be considered a sort of gang initiation ceremony. The ceremony may vary from set to set and from city to city.
There isn't really an example for the word put-on.
Put-on by Rulio December 30, 2024

put on a shirt 

Slang for getting killed/murdered. Often used by gang members + rappers in recent history

Explanation - When someone is murdered, their loved ones(or fans if famous) put a picture of them on a shirt to honor them. When someone says they’ll put someone on a shirt, they’re planning on killing that person.
“Yo that boy finna be put on a shirt if he don’t quit dissin me”

Put on Prince 

A person who gets others to enjoy something before it is mainstream
Kyle: "I put all of my friends onto BabyTron, I am the Put on Prince"
Nick: "You coined the term Put on Prince to call me so I am the Put on Prince"
Kyle: "I invented the term Put on Prince so by definition I am everyone's Put on Prince"
Put on Prince by A Told Story January 21, 2022

Put on Ice

To take a break from a relationship due to one party being unsatisfied with the behavior of the other. The person "put on ice" is usually blocked, ignored, and ghosted until the other person forgives them. The motive usually involves trying to punish bad behavior and make said punisher feel shame and guilt, usually to make them realize that they might lose someone if they do not behave better.
Becky was jealous that Tyrone had a girlfriend. Becky was not happy being the side chick. She scratched Tyrone's car hoping that it would teach him a lesson for choosing his girlfriend instead of her. Becky was "put on ice" by Tyrone until she learned her place.
Put on Ice by Knight Mare February 19, 2021