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stand-up

/ˈstændˌʌp/

stand-up adjective: honest; honorable; genuine.

Adjective

stand-up (comparative more stand-up, superlative most stand-up)

  1. Honest; honorable; genuine.
    • He's a stand-up guy, and a hard worker.
    • For the first time on an English railway there was a good stand-up smash between a heavy steam-engine and a train of light cars, and it was 'bad for the coo.'1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
  2. Upright; while standing.
    • stand-up comedy
  3. Performed while standing although normally done while sitting.
    • Every morning we have a stand-up meeting.
  4. That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide.
    • stand-up double; stand-up triple

Noun

stand-up (countable and uncountable, plural stand-ups)

  1. (uncountable) A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage
    • Sometimes the club has music, sometimes stand-up.
  2. (countable) A comedian who performs on stage.
  3. (countable) A news broadcast delivered by an announcer who is filmed standing near the scene of the event.
    • Reporters covet standups rather than the voiceover narration of news footage because it puts their faces on the air.2012, R. M. Reed, M. K. Reed, The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video, page 508
    Synonyms:
    stand-upper
  4. (countable) A short meeting throughout which participants remain standing (to encourage brevity).
    • How come you weren't at the stand-up this morning?
    • Esther Crawford, a project manager, asked people to join a “standup” meeting at 9:30 p.m. in San Francisco on Thursday as some layoff notices went out.2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, “Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  5. (countable) A free-standing photographic print or promotional item; a standee.

stand-up meaning in Tamil

stand-up in Tamil

நிமிர்வு ஆன

Synonyms of stand-up

Forms of stand-up

Adjective
comparativemore stand-up
superlativemost stand-up
alternative formstandup
Noun
pluralstand-ups

Origin of stand-up

Deverbal from stand up.

Words formed from stand-up

Phrases with stand-up

Questions about stand-up

What does stand-up mean?
Stand-up means honest; honorable; genuine.
What is stand-up in Tamil?
Stand-up in Tamil is நிமிர்வு ஆன. See Stand-up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stand-up?
Stand-up can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce stand-up?
Stand-up is pronounced /ˈstændˌʌp/.

Words near stand-up in the dictionary

  1. stand-points
  2. stand-to
  3. stand-to-pee
  4. stand-to-pees
  5. stand-tos
  6. stand-up
  7. stand-up bass
  8. stand-up basses
  9. stand-up bassist
  10. stand-up bassists
  11. stand-up comedy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stand-up (page history and authors); stand-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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