Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bankrupt.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
belly up .
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Examples
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Why all this tax money going to belly-up green franchises?
James Campion: #OWS James Campion 2011
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The intent all along was to shunt money-hemorrhaging expenses like mercury reclamation to a zombie company that could go belly-up without also killing General Motors.
Mercury fallout from the Cash-for-Clunkers program. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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We have to reinvest in this country – letting GM, Chrysler, Ford and most of our banks go belly-up would not do anything good for this country.
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Nothing will get done on health care until the system goes belly-up and is in total fiscal ruin.
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Finally, when the nation goes belly-up like Massachusetts and California, Blame Bush.
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When they belly-up to the bar a litle toast would be very appropriate.
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By one estimate, nearly 10 small snowboard shops went belly-up every week in 2009.
Jake Burton puts his personal stamp on Burton Snowboards 2010
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To elaborate: Dennings is a riot as a brash Brooklyn waitress, yoked by sitcom fate to a spoiled Barbie doll bubbly Beth Behrs, a dethroned society heiress whose family has gone belly-up.
Matt's Guide to Monday Night TV: New and Returning Shows 2011
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Meanwhile, across the Continent, banks and insurance companies would falter; pension funds would go belly-up, and—given a likely haircut of €0.50 per euro of Greek debt—Europe's taxpayers would have to pump up the asset side of banks' balance sheets.
Back to the Drachma Josef Joffe 2011
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Where were they when the economic disaster of the past 8 years caused so many businesses to go belly-up?
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