Setup Explained

Setup (the noun) or set up (the verb) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Set Up (2005 film), a 2005 Hong Kong horror film
• Setup (2011 film), a 2011 action thriller heist film

Music

• Setup (album), a 1994 album by jazz pianist Stanley Cowell
• Setup (music)

Sports

• Racing setup, in auto racing
• Setup pitcher

Other uses

• Setup (storytelling), the introduction in a plot of an element that will be useful to the story only later, when the payoff comes
• Setup, also called frameup, providing false evidence or false testimony in order to falsely prove someone guilty of a crime
• Setup, installation (computer programs)
• Setup, power-on self-test
• Setup, on page 104 of The Black Ice, delivery of an alcoholic drink in a bar
• Setup cost, the cost of a step in manufacturing changeover

See also

• Setting up to fail, a manipulative technique to engineer failure
• Set (disambiguation)
• Setting (disambiguation)
• The Set-Up (disambiguation)