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ANTE UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ante up mean?
• ANTE UP (verb)
The verb ANTE UP has 1 sense:
1. cancel or discharge a debt
Familiarity information: ANTE UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cancel or discharge a debt
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Context example:
pay up, please!
Hypernyms (to "ante up" is one way to...):
pay (discharge or settle)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ante up"):
liquidate; pay off (eliminate by paying off (debts))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
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