belly-up

Speech parts

1. belly-up - Adjective

2. belly-up - Verb

3. belly-up - Phrase

4. belly-up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

financially ruined

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Alternative names

belly up

Synonyms

bankrupt dead destroyed finished broke ruined impoverished bust smashed penniless insolvent skint cooked penurious impecunious

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Antonyms

solid secure loaded comfortable solvent affluent

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Examples

a bankrupt company Source: Internet

the company went belly-up Source: Internet

AN elderly woman's relaxed birthday celebrations turned belly-up after two men toppled onto and injured her while fighting at an Andergrove pub. Source: Internet

And then…my marriage to Toni went belly-up. Source: Internet

So we began on a six-block trek to our other neighborhood pub on Tennyson ISO belly-up seats. Source: Internet

Vice President Pence’s family gas station business, Kiel Bros. Oil Co., went belly-up back around 2004. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

belly up

Close letter words and terms

belly-tember belly-timber belly-timmer belly-up peach belly-wahk belly-wark