ante up

1. 1.

   cancel or discharge a debt

   “pay up, please!”

   Synonymspay uppay

   Broaderpay

   Narrowerliquidate

Questions about ante up

What does ante up mean?

ante up means "cancel or discharge a debt".

What is another word for ante up?

Close synonyms include pay up, pay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ante up a common word?

ante up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.