When someone or something went tits up, it means that he, she, or it died.
The Trump campaign went tits up.
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Deceased; dead. Typically used to connote a potentially bad outcome. (Army slang)
"If you go AWOL, wwe're going to find you tits up in a ditch after Top hunts you down."
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Passed out in the street, typically from drunkeness or similar causes.
After his 16th beer, Freddie ended up tits up in the gutter.
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A hopeless situation that only gets worse, usually brought about by chance, and from which there appears to be absolutely no escape. bad luckf***** updead endno hope
Used in a fiction by Annie Proulx in the New Yorker June 9&16,2008
TITS-UP IN A DITCH,about the βluckβ of a young woman,Dakota who was abandoned by her mother as a baby and raised on a farm by her grandparents. Her grandfather came back to the house one day and said that a cow had tried to climb a steep wet slope that apparently slid out from under her, and had landed on her back in a ditch. βHad me some (bad) luck todayβ he said. Goddam cow got herself tits-up in a ditch couple days ago. Dead time I found herβ.
Dakota goes on to find herself pregnant, married and abandoned by her husband, Sash, who joined the army. Dakota then leaves her baby and also joins the army. Dacota lost an arm, her baby gets killed and Sash ends up in a coma with both legs blown off and half his head gone. Upon returning alone to the farm, Sashβs mother asks Dakota about his condition. Dakota answers βSash is tits-up in a ditchβ. And that is when Dakota began to feel her own decent into the dark watery mud.
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This term is used when a red-neck or skid is on a motorized vehicle and crashes it to the point of being thrown off the machine.
"I was goin third gear wide open when that badger popped in front'a me, tried goin 'round the critter and ended TITS UP IN THE RHUBARB!"
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1) A Chick with a fast car.
2) When a long term plan works out and everything goes smoothly as if it was written in a book.
1) The perky little blonde in the vintage Hemi Cuda passed me on the freeway doing at least 85 mph. She was tits up and wheelin.
2) The Alfster sat back and waited patiently for the fool to fall into his zealot rose trap. Soon, everything would be tits up and wheelin.
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