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belly up en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, not-comparable) Dead or defunct.
    • After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.

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Relateds

go belly-up · tits up

belly up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To gather close, or approach eagerly or assertively, as a bar for ordering alcoholic drinks.
    • He bellied up to the bar as soon as he saw a free stool.
    • Belly-up to the bar boys and have a drink with me, […] 1926, Cecil Villiers, “Don Juan and the Plaza-Miners”, in The Wails and Tales of a Tropical Tramp, Iquitos: Imp. «La hormiga» […], →OCLC, page 99:
  2. (intransitive) To die; to fail or go out of business.
  3. (intransitive, of a dog) To lay on the back with its belly up.

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bellies up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bellied up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bellied up Tense=Past lexicographic
bellying up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

belly up to the bar