belly up

1. intoxicated by alcohol. Fred was boiled—belly up—glassy-eyed. After four beers, I was belly up, for sure.

2. Sl. (of a business) bankrupt; dead. (Like a dead fish that floats belly up.) That's the end. This company is belly up. After the fire the firm went belly up.

See also: belly, up

belly up (to something)

to move up to something, often a bar. (Usually in reference to nudging one's way to a bar.) The man swaggered in and bellied up to the counter and demanded my immediate attention. As he bellied up, he said, "Do you know who I am?"

See also: belly, up

belly up

v. Slang

To approach closely: The drunk tourists bellied up to the bar and drank some more. They were shy, but when we asked them over, they eventually bellied up and joined us.

See also: belly, up

belly up

1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Sylvia was boiled—belly up—glassy-eyed.

2. mod. dead. That’s the end. This company is belly up. (See also turn belly up.) After the fire the firm went belly up.

3. Go to belly up (to something).

See also: belly, up

belly up

verb

See belly up to something

See also: belly, up

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sigge	-	Swedish
Rudesind	-	Ancient Germanic
Cledwyn	-	Welsh
Yakiv	-	Ukrainian
Altair	-	Astronomy, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Aputsiaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic