English

Verb

pony up ‎(third-person singular simple present ponies up, present participle ponying up, simple past and past participle ponied up)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To pay (usually a bill, debt or due).
   • 2009 January 25, Frank Rich, “No Time for Poetry”, in New York Times:

     Only then did we learn that he doled out billions in secret, last-minute bonuses to his staff last month, just before Bank of America took over and just before the government ponied up a second bailout to cover Merrill’s unexpected $15 billion fourth-quarter loss.

   • September, 1824, The Atlantic magazine, p. 343:

     Every man, save Silvy, vociferously swore that he had ponied up his "quarter:" whereupon the landlady observed that Silvy the less had not paid his reckoning.

Synonyms

• (to pay): cough up, foot the bill, fork out, fork over, pay up, shell out, stump up