countups

Noun

countup (plural countups)

1. Enumeration; the act of counting until a criterion is reached.
   • He held her hands till the quake subsided but then it was I who went seismic, as if it had rippled all that distance to me, and with his hands still on hers he led her through a cue-up and countup and this time when the needle released from their doubled fingers it bedded into the groove as if it...2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused, →ISBN
2. A session when something is counted.
   • ... an' got pickeld to a point where that dam young assistant treasurer put twenty pieces of dedwood over on me in the countup.1916, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 16, page 920