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Definition of Ante up
1. Verb. Cancel or discharge a debt. "They ante up "; "Pay up, please!"
Generic synonyms: Pay
Specialized synonyms: Liquidate, Pay Off
Derivative terms: Pay, Payment, Payment
Antonyms: Default
Definition of Ante up
1. Verb. To contribute one's share of a payment, or to pay what is due ¹
2. Verb. To pay a fee necessary to play a game, typically a card game ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ante Up
Literary usage of Ante up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1861 I have had to ante up at the rate of $200.— .VY Tribune, 1857 I did hear
that you anted off 1000 shares in trade for Texas Aug. 10 (Bartlett). ..."
2. The Compromises of Life, and Other Lectures and Addresses, Including Some by Henry Watterson (1903)
"... he cried; 'ante up! I come in on nary pa'r, an' see what I drawed. This is a
game whar everybody wins. You jest stick to the devil when ..."
3. An Esculapius of the north: being the random reminiscences of a General by David Lechmere Anderson (1897)
"said MacCallum, who bore his roasting pleasantly. " Yes ; if you ante up, I'll
find the joker," said ... ante up ! it was the mother up," said MacCallum. ..."
4. The Modern English Verb-adverb Combination by Arthur Garfield Kennedy (1920)
"... as shown in such combinations as act up 'to behave in an unseemly manner,'
ante up, cut up 'to play pranks,' dii>ide up, give up 'to surrender,' hunt up ..."
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