PAY UP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Cancel or discharge a debt

Example:

pay up, please!

Synonyms:

ante up; pay; pay up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pay up" is one way to...):

pay (discharge or settle)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pay up"):

liquidate; pay off (eliminate by paying off (debts))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

default (fail to pay up)