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belly-up

belly-up is the alternative spelling of belly up.

Meaning of belly up

Adjective

belly up (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Dead or defunct.
    • After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.

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Phrases with belly-up

Questions about belly-up

What is belly-up the alternative spelling of?
Belly-up is the alternative spelling of belly up.

Words near belly-up in the dictionary

  1. belly-gods
  2. belly-tember
  3. belly-timber
  4. belly-timbers
  5. belly-timmer
  6. belly-up
  7. belly-up peach
  8. belly-up peaches
  9. belly-wahk
  10. belly-wahks
  11. belly-wark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belly-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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