PONIES UP Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

ponies up

verb

present tense third-person singular of pony up

as in pays

to give what is owed for despite having good credit, the couple still had to pony up a large down payment for the house

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Recent Examples of ponies up Under that plan, all of the 13 campuses in the system would freeze tuition for two years, provided the state ponies up $190 million in new support. — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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And the city is backing a ballot initiative of its own, Measure AT, which would eliminate a $15-million cap on the 10% admission tax on ticket sales the stadium pays.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
That’s, like, half of what Heather pays for house slippers — that is a single designer slipper.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

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Meta and Microsoft prove why patience pays off Not every tech stock got slammed last week.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
The obvious effort that Pascal spent practicing the cello pays off in the scenes where Alex intensely plays the instrument for his own private reasons, as if asking the same thing of himself.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026

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