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belly-flop |
belly-god |
belly-land |
belly-laugh |
belly-pinched |
belly-up
| bellyache
| bellyacher
| bellyband
| bellybound
| bellybutton
belly-up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective belly-up has 1 sense
- belly-up(s = adj.all) bankrupt - financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
CIDE DICTIONARY
belly-up, a. [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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