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foots up

foots up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foot up.

Meaning of foot up

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

Questions about foots up

What is foots up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Foots up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foot up.

Words near foots up in the dictionary

  1. footrunners
  2. foots
  3. Foots Creek
  4. foots it
  5. foots the bill
  6. foots up
  7. footsal
  8. footscraper
  9. footscrapers
  10. Footscray
  11. footscrew

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