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ponies up

ponies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 ponies up

What is ponies up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ponies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pony up.

Words near ponies up in the dictionary

  1. ponibility
  2. ponied
  3. ponied up
  4. ponies
  5. ponies in the barn
  6. ponies up
  7. ponified
  8. ponify
  9. ponir
  10. Ponjim
  11. ponk

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