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STAND-UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stand-up mean?
• STAND-UP (adjective)
The adjective STAND-UP has 1 sense:
1. requiring a standing position
Familiarity information: STAND-UP used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Requiring a standing position
Context example:
a stand-up comic
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Context examples
"I thought you was turnin' me down, but I guess I was mistaken. But you can't lick me, Mart, in a stand-up fight. I've got the reach on you."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I knew—as he knew—that it was a stand-up fight with death, and in a pause told him so.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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