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  1. (UK, not-comparable) Brought to a sudden halt.
    • […] and then with a terrific crash the ship brought up all standing, and we were hurled against the bridge screens by the force of the collision. 2008, Robert C. Stem, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat:
  2. (UK, not-comparable) Wearing one's clothes, for example while sleeping.
    • A couple of girls were standing alongside an ambulance drawn up next to the lorry, out of which they had apparently just crawled, having slept all standing, as all had I suppose. 1917, Edward Percy Stebbing, At the Serbian Front in Macedonia, page 77:
    • No man had aught to cover him save his blankets, in which he slept “all standing,” i.e., with his clothes on. 1925, Fitzhugh Green, Our Naval Heritage, page 106: