stand-up

See also: standup and stand up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from stand up.

Adjective

stand-up (comparative more stand-up, superlative most stand-up)

1. Honest; honorable.

   He's a stand-up guy, and a hard worker.

2. Upright; while standing.

   stand-up comedy

3. Performed while standing although normally done while sitting.

   Every morning we have a stand-up meeting.

4. (baseball, of a hit) That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide.

   stand-up double; stand-up triple

Derived terms

• stand-up bass
• stand-up bassist
• stand-up comedy
• stand-up guy
• stand-up hockey
• stand-up meeting

Translations

honest, honorable

• Bulgarian: почтен (bg) (počten)
• Finnish: suoraselkäinen (fi)
• Polish: lojalny (pl), niezawodny (pl)
• Romanian: onest (ro), de încredere

upright

• Bulgarian: прав (bg) (prav), изправен (bg) (izpraven)
• Finnish: suora (fi)
• Polish: stojący
• Romanian: vertical (ro) m, drept (ro) m, perpendicular (ro) m

performed while standing

• Finnish: seisova (fi)
• Polish: stojący

Noun

stand-up (countable and uncountable, plural stand-ups)

1. (uncountable) A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage

   Sometimes the club has music, sometimes stand-up.

2. (countable) A comedian who performs on stage.
3. (countable) A news broadcast delivered by an announcer who is filmed standing near the scene of the event.
   • 2012, R. M. Reed, M. K. Reed, The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video, page 508:

     Reporters covet standups rather than the voiceover narration of news footage because it puts their faces on the air.

4. (countable) A short meeting throughout which participants remain standing (to encourage brevity).

   How come you weren't at the stand-up this morning?

   • 2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, “Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Esther Crawford, a project manager, asked people to join a “standup” meeting at 9:30 p.m. in San Francisco on Thursday as some layoff notices went out.

5. (countable) A free-standing photographic print or promotional item; a standee.

Descendants

• →⇒ Finnish: stand-up-komedia
• ⇒ Icelandic: uppistand
• → Japanese: スタンドアップ (sutandoappu)
• → Korean: 스탠드업 (seutaendeueop)
• → Hebrew: סְטֶנְדְּאָפּ (sténdap)
• → Polish: stand-up
• → Russian: стенда́п (stendáp)
• →⇒ Spanish: standupero
• → Swedish: ståuppare (calque)

Translations

performance of stand-up comedy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相聲 / 相声 (zh) (xiàngsheng), 單口相聲 / 单口相声 (zh) (dānkǒu xiàngsheng)

• Finnish: stand-up-komedia
• Hebrew: סְטֶנְדְּאָפּ m (sténdap)
• Icelandic: uppistand n
• Japanese: スタンドアップ (sutandoappu), スタンダップコメディ (sutandoappu komedi)
• Korean: 스탠드업 (seutaendeueop), 스탠드업 코미디 (seutaendeueop komidi)
• Polish: stand-up (pl) m
• Russian: стенда́п (ru) m (stɛndáp), стенда́п-коме́дия f (stɛndáp-komédija)

comedian who performs on stage

• Polish: stand-uper m, stand-uperka f, stand-upowiec m
• Swedish: ståuppare (sv)

stand-up meeting

• Finnish: seisova kokous
• Polish: spotkanie na stojąco n

See also

• stand
• stand up

Anagrams

• dustpan, upstand

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stand-up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛn.dap/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛndap
• Syllabification: stan‧d-up

Noun

stand-up m inan

1. (comedy) stand-up comedy

Declension

Declension of stand-up

	singular	plural
nominative	stand-up	stand-upy
genitive	stand-upu	stand-upów
dative	stand-upowi	stand-upom
accusative	stand-up	stand-upy
instrumental	stand-upem	stand-upami
locative	stand-upie	stand-upach
vocative	stand-upie	stand-upy

Further reading

• stand-up in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stand-up in Polish dictionaries at PWN