tits up
(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Broken; failed; inoperable.
Seen in the wild
Farage deploys the rottweiler to distract from awkward £5m gift story | John Crace https://www.europesays.com/britain/29331/ It’s a classic from the Donald Trump playbook: everything’s been going a bit tits up, so y…
It’s a double trap. If they hire him and it goes tits up, they’re knackered again. If they don’t and the new guy goes tits up, it’s the same. DOUBLE ADMIRAL ACKBAR
Definitions
(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Broken; failed; inoperable.
“Farage deploys the rottweiler to distract from awkward £5m gift story | John Crace https://www.europesays.com/britain/29331/ It’s a classic from the Donald Trump playbook: everything’s been going a bit tits up, so you create…”
“It’s a double trap. If they hire him and it goes tits up, they’re knackered again. If they don’t and the new guy goes tits up, it’s the same. DOUBLE ADMIRAL ACKBAR”
The vast majority go tits up in the first year. Basic economics, even if the people have some training and education in retail.
“Farage deploys the rottweiler to distract from awkward £5m gift story | John Crace https://www.europesays.com/britain/29331/ It’s a classic from the Donald Trump playbook: everything’s been going a bit tits up, so you create…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It’s a double trap. If they hire him and it goes tits up, they’re knackered again. If they don’t and the new guy goes tits up, it’s the same. DOUBLE ADMIRAL ACKBAR”
— Bluesky· May 2026
Comments
(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Dead.
But believe me, sunshine, if this show goes tits up, none of us are going to come out smelling of roses."
Comments
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "tits up".
⚡About Tech, Dev & AI slang
The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
See all Tech, Dev & AI slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "tits up" (T)
Browse all slang words starting with T.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- bollocks up73%
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
- bugger up72%
(British, Ireland, Australia, NZ, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
- dick up71%
Vulgar slang verb meaning to ruin, spoil, or mess something up — a coarser equivalent of 'cock up' or 'screw up'. The transitive use implies that someone's actions have caused something to go badly wrong. Common in informal speech where stronger emphasis is wanted.
- bitch up70%
(ambitransitive, slang) to ruin; spoil; mess up.