What is "standup"

Usage examples of "standup".

They come upon a TV REPORTER doing a standup in front of the firehouse where we see, in front, both the old firetruck and state trooper cars.

The trees and bushes were so thick, they hid things till too late, and made the battle more a series of bushwhackings and ambushes than a proper standup fight.

Like a standup comedian in a Borscht Belt hotel, Chi waited for the laughter to die down, then turned the meeting over to Trout and took his place at the table.

The bus idles empty for a very long timethe post-event scrums and standups last longer than the whole THM didand then when the BS1 regulars finally do pile in they're all extremely busy trying to type and phone and file, and all the techs have to get their SX and DVS Digital Editors out (the CBS machine's being held steady on their cameraman's little stepladder in the aisle because all the tables and the ERPP are full) and help their producers find and time the clip of Mrs.

All that stuff I told Morrie about how it'd be impossible to go back to doing standup, that was just smoke and mirrors to cover up the whole mishegaas with Eric.

Crowder idly watched her husband lash The Spider to its mooring buoy, climb into his punt and row for shore, manning the oars from a standup position, a habit peculiar to lobster fishermen as a whole.

He went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway approaching a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row and, as often as he was called in to umpire any octagonal argument among slangwhangers, the accomplished washout always used to rub shoulders with the last speaker and clasp shakers (the handtouch which is speech without words) and agree to every word as soon as half uttered, command me!

He's been having a lot of fun, actually, working as a standup comedian in local clubs.

Like a standup comedian in a BorschtBelt hotel, Chi waited for the laughter to die down, then turned the meeting over to Trout and took his place at the table.

When we get there, we'll do as many standups as they want us to, time permitting, but then we fly.

When we get there, we'll do as many standups as they want us to, time permit­ting, but then we fly.

The lobby's front wall is glass, and in the gravel courtyard just outside is a breathtaking twenty-part Cellular Waltz going on around two local news vans throbbing at idle and raising their 40-foot microwave transmitters, plus four well-dressed local male heads with hand mikes doing their standups, each attached to his tech by a cord.

Resembling a chubby cheerful standup comic from the good old days before comedians turned lean, mean, and obscene, he sported a tiny mustache somewhat uptilted at the tips, giving him the appearance of a man who was perpetually smiling.

Only one tent had been erected, a fifteen-foot square standup wall tent that served as Colonel Bleech's command post and sleeping quarters, while he waited further orders.

In which case, it will be our wallers and our LACs against theirs, in a standup fight without the sort of missile launch which hammed us at Solon.