What does belly-up mean?
Definitions for belly-up
bel·ly-up
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word belly-up.
Princeton's WordNet
bankrupt, belly-up(p)adjective
financially ruined
"a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of belly-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of belly-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of belly-up in a Sentence
Lots of firms have gone belly up very quickly because they can't get money from banks nor help from the government.
This guy, when I saw him, for a fast jet with the wheels down, I said, 'I think he's coming in too low,' then he was 90 degrees -- sideways -- and then he went belly-up into the house and it was a ball of fire. It was terrible.
The suggestion is that our regulation is a lot tighter and that is true for the banks but it is not true for the IFSC, we need a proper open debate about what kind of investment strategy do we want. There is no point doing this when things go belly up, if things go belly up, because that is what will happen.
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