Belly-up

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  belly-up
       adj : financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went
             belly-up" [syn: {bankrupt}, {belly-up(p)}]