"tits-up" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} tits-up (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of tits up Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: tits up
    Sense id: en-tits-up-en-adj-VkbIQkMP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "The bird went tits-up, take another day or so to fix.",
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          "ref": "1998, Anna Linzer, Ghost Dancing, Picador, page 39:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1999, Stephen Rhodes, The Velocity of Money: A Novel of Wall Street, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., page 253:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2000, Dewey Lambdin, King's Captain: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure, St. Martin's Press, page 66:",
          "text": "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'!",
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          "ref": "2005, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Shadow Patriots, Tor/Forge, page 215:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2005, Bill Fitzhugh, Pest Control, HarperCollins, page 46:",
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