Definitions for windup

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Spelling: [wahynd-uhp]

IPA: /ˈwaɪndˌʌp/

Windup is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in windup (dinpuw).

Definitions for windup

noun

1. the conclusion of any action, activity, etc.; the end or close.
2. a final act or part.
3. Baseball. the preparatory movements of the arm before pitching a ball. Compare stretch (def 22).
4. Informal. a mechanical object, as a toy or wristwatch, that is driven by a spring or similar mechanism that must be wound.
5. an act or instance of winding up.

Origin of windup

First recorded in 1565-75; noun use of verb phrase wind up

Examples for windup

Our morning meal was like a capital English breakfast, with coffee by way of a windup.

After all that windup, it was finally time for Mitt Romney to make the most difficult and important sales pitch of his life.

“I find that a bit of noise always helps after we get the windup with the bayonet, sir,” he explained to Dalroy.

He stopped his windup and threw to Menken, who was covering the rubber and yelling to him to throw.

It would have been something of a windup to send the boy to the penitentiary.

He was disguised as a prima ballerina for the purpose, and as a windup he danced, with great skill and abandon, a can-can.