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Perhaps derives from an expired animal lying on its back, or the behaviour of aeroplanes' attitude indicators, which in some regional conventions turn upside down when faulty and display an inverted 'W' resembling a pair of breasts.

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tits up (not comparable)

(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Broken; failed; inoperable.
- 1987, Nora Roberts, Daring to dream, page 157:
  
  The vast majority go tits up in the first year. Basic economics, even if the people have some training and education in retail.
- 2007, Gemma Townley, The Hopeless Romantic 's Handbook, page 102:
  
  But believe me, sunshine, if this show goes tits up, none of us are going to come out smelling of roses."
(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Dead.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tits,‎ up.

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tits-up, titsup

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belly up

動詞

tits up

third-person singular simple present indicative of tit up

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titups

tits-up

形容詞

tits-up (not comparable)

Alternative form of tits up
- 1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, Putnam, page 197:
  
  The bird went tits-up, take another day or so to fix.
- 1998, Anna Linzer, Ghost Dancing, Picador, page 39:
  
  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.
- 1999, Stephen Rhodes, The Velocity of Money: A Novel of Wall Street (HarperCollins Publishers Inc.), page 253:
  
  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.
- 2000, Dewey Lambdin, King's Captain: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure, St. Martin 's Press, page 66:
  
  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'!
- 2005, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Shadow Patriots, Tor/Forge, page 215:
  
  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.
- 2005, Bill Fitzhugh, Pest Control, HarperCollins, page 46:
  
  Mary said that seventy percent of new businesses failed within the first six months. Another twenty percent went tits-up within the year.

アナグラム

titups

titsup

形容詞

titsup (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of tits up
- 2004, Karen Traviss, Crossing the Line, HarperCollins, page 237:
  We can't extract you if it all goes titsup.

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titups

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