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stump up

verb

  1. informal.
    adverb to give (the money required)


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The tough job being ended and the Mounds laid low, the hour is come for Boffin to stump up.

"Stump up the dross like a man, then, and don't stand whining there like a sucking turkey craving for pity," retorted Captain S——.

Later I found their secret—down inside an old charred stump up the canyon.

You can give me a decent funeral--the governor will stump up for that- -and there will be pickings for you.

And you'd better be thinking what to say to make the jolly old farmers stump up, my dear.

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