Meaning of tits-up | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B1]

Examples

“The bird went tits-up, take⟳ another day or so to fix⟳.”

“Maybe she knows you and Mary will be taking her home, and that by next week she'll be sleeping under the cool green branches of a giant cedar tree instead of tits-up in some dusty cornfield.”

“Next thing he remembered was blanking out, and waking to find⟳ himself tits-up in the S&P pit, a forest of undulating legs roiling around him.”

“Yeomanry . . . militia forces. . . do I not make⟳ major-general by this time next year, I've either gone tits-up. . . or wasn't really tryin'!”

“The two women were naked except for their wigs and their gartered stockings. They both lay⟳ tits-up on the floor, facing André and Clinton.”

“Mary said that seventy percent of new businesses failed within the first six months. Another twenty percent went tits-up within the year.”

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