foot up en · VERB
Meanings
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(figuratively, sometimes) To add up; to calculate.
He had knocked over my girl, I had got to fix him for it; and I lay there and gritted my teeth, and footed up the chances. My leg was broke, my gun was gone. Case had still ten shots in his Winchester. It looked a kind of hopeless business.
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| footing up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| foots up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| footed up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| footed up | Tense=Past | lexicographic |