countup

plural countups · alternative count-up

1. Enumeration; the act of counting until a criterion is reached.

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   He held her hands till the quake subsided but then it was I who went seismic, as if it had rippled all that distance to me, and with his hands still on hers he led her through a cue-up and countup and this time when the needle released from their doubled fingers it bedded into the groove as if it had been made just for this moment and slipped right into the arms of the storm riders throatily riding the unpredictable weather like shimmer children in an echoing wasteland.

   2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused, →ISBN

2. A session when something is counted.

   ... an' got pickeld to a point where that dam young assistant treasurer put twenty pieces of dedwood over on me in the countup.

   1916, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 16, page 920