pony up

1. 1.

   give reluctantly

   “He coughed up some money for his children's tuition”

   Synonymscough upspit up

   Broadergive

Questions about pony up

What does pony up mean?

pony up means "give reluctantly".

What is another word for pony up?

Close synonyms include cough up, spit up. 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 pony up a common word?

pony 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.