tits-up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of tits up.
Example Sentences
- "The bird went tits-up, take another day or so to fix."
- "Maybe she knows you and Mary will be taking her home, and that by next week she'll be sleeping under the cool green branches of a giant cedar tree instead of tits-up in some dusty cornfield."
- "Next thing he remembered was blanking out, and waking to find himself tits-up in the S&P pit, a forest of undulating legs roiling around him."
- "Yeomanry . . . militia forces. . . do I not make major-general by this time next year, I've either gone tits-up. . . or wasn't really tryin'!"
- "The two women were naked except for their wigs and their gartered stockings. They both lay tits-up on the floor, facing André and Clinton."
- "Mary said that seventy percent of new businesses failed within the first six months. Another twenty percent went tits-up within the year."