'belly-up' definitions:
Definition of 'belly-up'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up" [syn: bankrupt, belly-up(p)]
Definition of 'belly-up'
From: GCIDE
- belly up \bel"ly up`\, belly-up \bel"ly-up`\, a. [from analogy to the position of a floating dead fish.] defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial organizations; often used in the phrase
- go belly-up, i. e. to go bankrupt. [PJC]