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headsup

headsup is the alternative form of heads-up.

Meaning of heads-up

Noun

heads-up (plural heads-up or heads-ups)

  1. (US, idiomatic) A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler.
    • Send everyone a heads-up about the inspection tomorrow.
  2. Involving two players. (usually said when there are only two players in the table; or, when all players except two folded)
    • There were only two of us, so we started playing heads-up.

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Forms of headsup

pluralheadsups

Questions about headsup

What is headsup the alternative form of?
Headsup is the alternative form of heads-up.

Words near headsup in the dictionary

  1. headstrokes
  2. Headstrom
  3. headstrong
  4. headstrongly
  5. headstrongness
  6. headsup
  7. headsups
  8. headswoman
  9. headswomen
  10. headteacher
  11. headteachers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headsup (page history and authors); heads-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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