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ponied up

ponied up is the simple past and past participle of pony up.

Meaning of pony up

Verb

pony up (third-person singular simple present ponies up, present participle ponying up, simple past and past participle ponied up)

  1. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To pay (usually a bill, debt or due).
    • Every man, save Silvy, vociferously swore that he had ponied up his "quarter:" whereupon the landlady observed that Silvy the less had not paid his reckoning.1824 September, “Paunch Hogabout”, in The Atlantic Magazine, volume 1, number 5, page 343

Questions about ponied up

What is ponied up the simple past and past participle of?
Ponied up is the simple past and past participle of pony up.

Words near ponied up in the dictionary

  1. poniards
  2. Poniatowski
  3. Poniatowskis
  4. ponibility
  5. ponied
  6. ponied up
  7. ponies
  8. ponies in the barn
  9. ponies up
  10. ponified
  11. ponify

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