Definition of "belly up" in English

Adjective

1. Dead or defunct.

   • After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.

Verb

1. To gather close, or approach eagerly or assertively, as a bar for ordering alcoholic drinks.

   • He bellied up to the bar as soon as he saw a free stool.

2. To die; to fail or go out of business.

3. To lay on the back with its belly up.