belly-up

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective belly-up has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

belly-upa. [from analogy to the position of a floating dead fish.].
     defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial organizations; often used in the phrase go belly-up, i. e. to go bankrupt.  [PJC]

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