toes up

See also: toes-up

English

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Etymology

From “toes” + “up”, in reference to a person lying on his or her back.

Adjective

toes up (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, slang, of a person) dead, killed
    • 1862, Charles James Lever, Davenport Dunn‎‎, page 119:
      Groves, of the Forty-sixth, is gone "toes up".
  2. (idiomatic, slang) broken, completely failed so as to become inactive
    • 2005, Mo Hayder, The devil of Nanking‎, page 42:
      The land deals in Tokyo've gone toes up since the bubble burst, but the landlord's still trying to push through a deal with a developer.

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