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bellies up

bellies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belly up.

Meaning of belly up

Verb

belly up (third-person singular simple present bellies up, present participle bellying up, simple past and past participle bellied up)

  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.
  2. (intransitive) To die; to fail or go out of business.
  3. (intransitive) To lay on the back with its belly up.

See all 4 meanings of belly up

Questions about bellies up

What is bellies up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bellies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belly up.

Words near bellies up in the dictionary

  1. bellied up
  2. bellied up to the bar
  3. bellies
  4. bellies of the beasts
  5. bellies out
  6. bellies up
  7. bellies up to the bar
  8. belliesful
  9. belliferous
  10. belligerati
  11. belligerence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bellies up (page history and authors); belly up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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