end up

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end up (third-person singular simple present ends up, present participle ending up, simple past and past participle ended up)

1. (transitive) To bring to a conclusion.

   The band usually ends up their concerts with their biggest hit song.

2. (copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.

   They ended up angry at each other.

   He ended up as an insurance agent.

   I was going for a stroll, and ended up lost.

3. (transitive) To lift or tilt, so as to set on end.

   to end up a hogshead

• (to bring to a conclusion): conclude, end, finish up, wind up
• (come to a final place, condition, situation): wind up, turn out

• start up

• “end up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• up-end, upend

From English end up.

end up

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) in the end; it turns out that
   • 2018 June 1, “【道具鈔惹禍】製片申請被拒 湯家驊斥自我中心：星戰都唔會太空拍”, in 蘋果日報 [Apple Daily]‎, archived from the original on 2021-06-21:

     但她指fso再給予一位金管局人員的電話，「咁樣來來往往我夠鐘拍喇，咪拍陰司紙囉end up」。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     但她指fso再给予一位金管局人员的电话，「咁样来来往往我够钟拍喇，咪拍阴司纸啰end up」。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     daan⁶ taa¹ zi² fso zoi³ kap¹ jyu⁵ jat¹ wai^6-2 gam¹ gun² guk^6-2 jan⁴ jyun⁴ dik¹ din⁶ waa^6-2, “gam² joeng^6-2 loi⁴ loi⁴ wong⁵ wong⁵ ngo⁵ gau³ zung¹ paak³ laa³, mai⁶ paak³ jam¹ si¹ zi² lo¹ en¹ ap¹”. [Jyutping]

     But she says that FSO then provided a telephone number of a HKMA personnel; “the time would have been up for me if I were to go back and forth [for all the paperwork] in such way, so it ended up being shooting with hell money as props.”

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