posted adj.1
(orig. US) aware, in the know, shrewd.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | National Encyc. I. 619: Posted-up is an Americanism for well-informed, thoroughly conversant with [OED]. | |
| ‘Letter from Sut Lovingood’ Nashville Union and American XIX June in Inge (1967) 86: A green cockney, city bred – a ‘posted’ one – who deemed everything he didn’t know as not worth knowing. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Chambers’s Journal XIII 22/1: But there is no occasion for us to say, with the Americans, that a man is well ‘posted up’ on a subject, while we can say that he is well informed on it. | |
 | Crying Shame of NY 199: Except to the initiated, the thoroughly-posted in the tricks of these accomplished mendicants, the thing is impossible. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Daily Tel. 13 Nov. n.p.: Nor may the merest schoolboy be posted up in the dates [F&H]. | |
| Forty Years a Gambler 38: He was not posted, and did not know why I hit him. | |
| Fogy Days, and Now 136: I was posted and asked the old lady how old she was when she married, and this was the sockdolager. | |
| Sheffield Dly Teleg. 8 Aug. 8/3: Great Northern Stores [...] are not able to keep posted up with present day prices. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Sl. Dict. 60: Posted Up, well informed on the subject. | |
| ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I’ll mention a few little things you must be posted on. | |
| Dock Rats of N.Y. (2006) 64: You have come with us; you are here in our midst, you are posted as to our game, and now what are you going to do about it, Ballard? | |
| Grand Forks Dly Herald (ND) 29 Jan. 6/1: The good things go to people who keep posted [...] study the market, study prices. | |
| Yankee Coast 321: They are well posted on news and history, on law and industry [DA]. | |
| Augie March (1996) 463: She was completely posted on Charlotte, better than a sister. |
In phrases
(orig. US) to keep someone up to date or informed.
| in Civil War Letters 20 May 119: I expect the newspaper correspondents keep you pretty well posted as to our movements. | |
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 284: He extracted from me a solemn promise to keep him posted up on all my movements in New York. | |
| Newcastle Courant 9 Feb. 2/5: Ladies keep him posted up in all the changes of fashion. | |
| Ranche & Range (N. Yakima, WA) 31 Aug. 9/3: Every farmer [...] needs this [...] journal to keep him posted on crop conditions. | |
| Leeds Mercury 7 Jan. 7/2: A man [...] naturaly looks to his daily papers to keep him posted on everything. | |
| Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 188: Sent ’em to the scab mills [...] to sling hash for the blacklegs and keep ’im posted on the goings on, see? | |
| ‘Modern Judgment of Solomon’ in Old Man Curry 260: Keep me posted on Sergeant Smith. | |
| Hooch! 191: Keep me posted on everythin’ that breaks. | |
| Iron Man 271: Mandl took a couple of yellow-backs out of his pocket [...] ‘There’s some chicken feed,’ he said; ‘keep me posted.’. | |
| Sudden Takes the Trail 167: Keep me posted. | |
| Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 38: Authors [...] like to keep you posted about this. | |
| Executioner (1973) 148: Keep us posted on their activities. | |
| Better Times Than These (1979) 34: Of course, you’ll keep me posted. | |
| Skin Tight 161: The proverbial doo-doo was getting ready to hit the proverbial fan. I’d appreciate it if you guys would keep me posted. | |
| Filth 95: Keep us posted on the movements of yobs like Alex Setterington. | |
| Robbers (2001) 78: Keep me posted on the cellular. |