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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So instead of making teams whole each time, the NFL now just pays teams’ travel expenses for their international game under the rationale that every team will lose a home game—and, in turn, home game ticket revenue—during that time.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The result is a politics in which almost everyone agrees that reform is urgently needed, provided someone else pays, and their own group’s advantages remain untouched.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of pays

Verb

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

Definition of pays off

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