Usually means: Fail financially; go out business.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word belly up:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. belly-up, belly up: Merriam-Webster
  2. belly-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. belly-up, belly-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. belly-up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Belly-Up, belly-up, belly up: Wordnik
  6. belly-up, belly up: Wiktionary
  7. belly-up, belly up: Dictionary.com
  8. Belly Up, Belly Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. belly-up, belly up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. belly-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. belly-up, belly up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. belly up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Belly Up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belly-up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belly up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. belly up, belly up, belly up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. belly-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Belly-up, belly up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (belly up)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Dead or defunct.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To gather close, or approach eagerly or assertively, as a bar for ordering alcoholic drinks.
verb:  (intransitive) To die; to fail or go out of business.
verb:  (intransitive, of a dog) To lay on the back with its belly up.

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