foot up

verb

To add up; to calculate.

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Meanings

verbfoot up (third-person singular simple present foots up, present participle footing up, simple past and past participle footed up)

present singular third person foots up · participle present footing up · participle past footed up · past footed up

  1. figurativelysometimesTo add up; to calculate.

    He had knocked over my girl, I had got to fix him for it; and I lay there and gritted my teeth, and footed up the chances. My leg was broke, my gun was gone. Case had still ten shots in his Winchester. It looked a kind of hopeless business.

    1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

Synonyms & antonyms

verbadd a column of numbers

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addadd together
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add upcastfootsum

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

foot up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foot%20up

MLA

“foot up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foot%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foot up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foot%20up.

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