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n. (plural of stand-up English)
Usage examples of "stand-ups".
Whatever happened had been quite nice to them, allowing at least brief stand-ups during the last part of the evening news.
The story was shaped by the producer, and narrated by the on-air star, who flew in for a single day, did the stand-ups and the major interviews, and then flew on to the next shoot, leaving the producer to cut the tape.
He was meeting really cool guys down there, a core group of new stand-ups like Jimmy Pineapple, an urbane Cajun from Baton Rouge, Louisiana (with whom Bill had an ongoing debate about who was the greatest comedian of all time: Chaplin or Buster Keaton).
Duncan was already an established manager in Los Angeles, representing several stand-ups, and Colleen informally handled a few guys in West Palm Beach for Fantasma.