to ante

Examples

• All

• Ok, new game, five card draw, Ante up.

  Only The Brave (2006)

• All right, ante up, boys.

  An American Tail (1986)

• All right, everybody ante up, ante up.

  Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

• All right, boys, ante up.

  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

• When you play poker you got to ante first.

  Havana (1990)

• Everybody ante up.

  His Kind of Woman (1951)

• Okay, ante up.

  The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

• But those concerns have done little to dissuade online risk-takers from wanting to ante up.

  Academic text (2000)

• MITCHELL: Ante up, boys.

  Flamingo Road (1949)

• Before the game started, everyone had to ante at least twenty dollars.

Synonyms

A

to ante up

vsto ante

• Informal

8 7.8

Pay money you owe as your part of a shared bill

places a stake at the start of a card game

Phrasal Verbs

U

to up the ante

9 7.0

To raise the level of risk or what people expect

A

to ante up

• Informal

8 7.8

Pay money you owe as your part of a shared bill

Compounds

P

penny ante

• Informal

1 7.9

A game people play for very small bets or something people think is not important

A

ante-nuptial agreement

• UK

8.4

A legal contract a couple makes before marriage saying who owns what if they separate

A

ante meridiem

6.3

Words written after a clock time to show it is before midday

E

ex-ante evaluation

• Specialized

8.8

A study carried out before a project to predict its likely effects

P

penny ante poker

• Informal

5.3

A casual card game played for very small amounts of money

How Much

to wager

20 4.4

to put up

81 3.7

to ante

7 8.6

to chip in

31 3.2

Surface Forms

Etymology