Meanings
plural headsups
- alternativeAlternative form of heads-up.
And a final user claimed: 'Disappointing news, but thanks for the headsup. Cauldron were the best.'
2023 January 30, Tom Scotson, “Vegetarians up in arms after recipe change to make Cauldron's sausages vegan changed them from the 'best on the market' to 'flaccid plasticky- tasting tubes'”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 May 20262 more examples
Just a headsup to care for those carotids (neck bending on red-eye flights, chiropractic manipulations, some yoga, or – as in my case – strenuous exercise[)].
2011 July 13, Andrew C. Revkin, “On Debt, Death, Taxes and Temperatures”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2011'When I spoke this morning after Espinosa but before Calderone, the step was there and because no one gave me a headsup, I assumed it was there or them and used it even to it felt awkward,' she writes.
2012 February 20, Hillary Clinton, email to Huma Abedin; quoted in Geoff Earle, “Hillary's red-hot anger at green shirt debacle revealed: […]”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, 15 September 2017, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2026
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headsup. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headsup
“headsup.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headsup. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “headsup,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headsup.
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