"tits-up" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, Putnam, page 197",
          "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",
          "text": "Mary said that seventy percent of new businesses failed within the first six months. Another twenty percent went tits-up within the year.",
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