heads-up

See also: heads up

English

Alternative forms

• heads up

Pronunciation

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Noun

heads-up (plural heads-up or heads-ups)

1. (chiefly US, idiomatic) A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler.

   Send everyone a heads-up about the inspection tomorrow.

2. (poker) Involving two players. (usually said when there are only two players in the table; or, when all players except two folded)

   There were only two of us, so we started playing heads-up.

   There are seven players on the table. Five folded, the remaining two played heads-up until the showdown.

Translations

warning or call to pay attention; (advisory) notice of what is to happen

• Danish: advarsel (da) c, forvarsel n, forhåndsadvarsel c
• Finnish: varoitus (fi)
• French: rappel (fr) m, alerte (fr) f, avertissement (fr) m
• German: Aufgepasst!, Achtung! (de), Vorwarnung (de) f, Bescheid (de) m, Hinweis (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forvarsel n

• Russian: предупреждение (ru) n (predupreždenije)
• Spanish: aldabonazo (es)

See also

• alarm
• alert
• wake-up call
• warning
• notice
• notification

Adjective

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

1. With head directly above the neck, eyes front.

   A heads-up posture meant the pilot couldn't pay attention to his instruments.

2. Alert; vigilant

   Getting those marbles off the red carpet was a real heads-up move.

Derived terms

• heads-up display

Translations

with head directly above the neck, eyes front

• German: aufrecht (de), Kopf im Nacken und Augen geradeaus

alert; vigilant

• German: wachsam (de), hellwach (de), aufmerksam (de), alert (de), aufgeweckt (de), flink (de), vorausschauend (de)

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• U-shaped