Crossword clues for stand-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1811, "courageous," originally of fist fights, denoting a manful contest without fake falls, from the verbal phrase (early 12c. in sense "rise to one's feet"), from stand (v.) + up (adv.). To stand up "hold oneself against an opponent" is from c.1600; as stand up to in the same sense from 1620s. To stand up for "defend the cause of" is from c.1600. To stand (someone) up "fail to keep an appointment" is attested from 1902. Stand-up comic first attested 1966. Catch-phrase will the real _______ please stand up? is from the popular CBS game show "To Tell the Truth," which debuted in 1956.
Wiktionary
a. 1 honest; honorable. 2 upright; while standing. 3 Performed while standing although normally done while sitting. 4 (context baseball of a hit English) That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide. n. 1 (context uncountable English) A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage 2 (context countable English) A short meeting performed while standing up.
WordNet
adj. requiring a standing position; "a stand-up bar"; "a stand-up comic"
of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" [syn: stiff]
Usage examples of "stand-up".
He was still sufficiently exoteric to think that a good stand-up fight in a good cause was a good thing.
Introduced by irritating stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr, this four-hour show, shown over two consecutive nights and voted for by the public, included often lengthy and well-chosen clips and trailers from movies, TV shows, commercials, public service announcements and music videos, with commentary by Patrick Allen, Jane Asher, Rick Baker, Doug Bradley, Bruce Campbell, John Carpenter, Chris Carter, Alice Cooper, Wes Craven, Sean Cunningham, Shelley Duvall, Robert Englund, Fenella Fielding, William Friedkin, Mark Gatiss, Jerry Goldsmith, Muriel Grey, Gunnar Hansen, Dennis Hopper, Sara Karloff, Mark Kermode, John Landis, Christopher Lee, Janet Leigh, Kevin McCarthy, Kyle McLachlan, Michael Madsen, Nigel Kneale, Kim Newman, Dave Prowse, Ed Sanchez, David Skal, Stephen Spielberg, Stephen Volk, Sigourney Weaver and Joss Whedon, among many others.
After all the Srpska Dobrovoljacki Straza--the Serb Volunteer Guard--while made up of fellow Serbs, was nonetheless a militia, good for hunting down Bosniaks but not all that good in a stand-up fight.
These most incredible dresses, Brandy tells me, the constructed ball gowns, the engineered evening dresses with their hoops and strapless bodices, their stand-up horseshoe collars and flaring shoulders, nipped waists, their stand-away peplums and bones, they never last very long.
Sex with Stephen tended to take up a considerable amount of time and energy, but once he started arguing, the lustiest marathon was, in comparison, a stand-up quickie.
The most resonant stand-up comedy requires a sense of rhythm and pacing, and comedians are often serious music lovers.
Young fellows of the more dashing sort, with high stand-up collars and voluminous bows to their neckerchiefs, distinguished themselves by cutting up fowls and offering portions thereof to the buxom girls these knowing ones had commonly selected.
Stand-Ups were the busiest, making themselves available for push interviews on the newsfeeds and snap debates in the virtual town halls.
Opera House downtown with a special postfilm stand-up performance by Bill.
Ron Shock, a forty-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, who had turned twenty-one in prison and run several businesses before becoming a full-time stand-up comedian, had a small-town drawl and a gift for hyperbole that made him an unrivaled storyteller.
In addition to his stand-up work, his television credits include The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line.
Stand-Up Sit Down show, Colleen told him she knew the bookers and offered to work it out for him.
It was what was going on at the time and what still goes on: someone spots a terrific stand-up comic who could become a comedic actor and they want to plug him into a sitcom.
The furniture was Spanish rustic and rattan, an easy chair with a laurel pattern, stand-up ashtrays, scrapes on the sofa, bookcases, Santiago pottery on the mantelpiece.
You will realise what a happy idea it was to side-track the lawful ayes and noes and substitute a stand-up vote by this fact: that a little later, when a deputation of deputies waited upon the President and asked him if he was actually willing to claim that that measure had been passed, he answered, 'Yes--and unanimously.