Usually means: Act decisively or remain silent.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. put up or shut up: Merriam-Webster
  2. put up or shut up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put up or shut up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. put up or shut up: Wiktionary
  5. Put Up or Shut Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. put up or shut up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. put up or shut up: Dictionary.com
  8. put up or shut up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Put up or shut up, put up or shut up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Put Up Or Shut Up, Put up or shut up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (put up or shut up)

verb:  (idiomatic) To desist from saying something unless one is able to prove it; to act in a manner that makes further talk unnecessary.

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