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come up snake eyes

come up snake eyes is the alternative form of come up with snake eyes.

Meaning of come up with snake eyes

Verb

come up with snake eyes (third-person singular simple present comes up with snake eyes, present participle coming up with snake eyes, simple past came up with snake eyes, past participle come up with snake eyes)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

Forms of come up snake eyes

third-person singular presentcomes up snake eyes
present participlecoming up snake eyes
pastcame up snake eyes
past participlecome up snake eyes

Origin of come up snake eyes

From come up + snake eyes.

Questions about come up snake eyes

What is come up snake eyes the alternative form of?
Come up snake eyes is the alternative form of come up with snake eyes.

Words near come up snake eyes in the dictionary

  1. come up from behind
  2. come up roses
  3. come up short
  4. come up smelling like a rose
  5. come up smelling of roses
  6. come up snake eyes
  7. come up to
  8. come up trumps
  9. come up with
  10. come up with snake eyes
  11. come up with the goods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: come up snake eyes (page history and authors); come up with snake eyes (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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