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ponying up

ponying up is the present participle and gerund 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 ponying up

What is ponying up the present participle and gerund of?
Ponying up is the present participle and gerund of pony up.

Words near ponying up in the dictionary

  1. ponygirl
  2. ponygirls
  3. ponyhawk
  4. ponyhawks
  5. ponying
  6. ponying up
  7. ponykind
  8. ponyless
  9. ponylike
  10. ponyplay
  11. ponyskin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ponying up (page history and authors); pony 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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