Gone UpPut out of the way, hanged, or otherwise got rid of. In Denver (America) unruly citizens are summarily hung on a cotton tree, and when any question is asked about them the answer is briefly given, “Gone up” —i.e. gone up the cotton tree, or suspended from one of its branches. (See New America, by W. Hepworth Dixon, i. 11.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Gone Up from Infoplease:
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