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foot up

foot up verb: to add up; to calculate.

Verb

foot up (third-person singular simple present foots up, present participle footing up, simple past and past participle footed up)

  1. (figuratively, sometimes) To add up; to calculate.
    • He had knocked over my girl, I had got to fix him for it; and I lay there and gritted my teeth, and footed up the chances. My leg was broke, my gun was gone. Case had still ten shots in his Winchester. It looked a kind of hopeless business.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

Forms of foot up

third-person singular presentfoots up
present participlefooting up
past participlefooted up
pastfooted up

Questions about foot up

What does foot up mean?
Foot up means to add up; to calculate.
What part of speech is foot up?
Foot up is a verb.
What is the past tense of foot up?
The past tense of foot up is footed up.

Words near foot up in the dictionary

  1. foot traffic
  2. foot trap
  3. foot traps
  4. foot trip
  5. foot trips
  6. foot up
  7. foot valve
  8. foot valves
  9. foot voting
  10. foot warmer
  11. foot warmers

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