Green’s Dictionary of Slang

up; usu. in phr. it’s all u.p. for him.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1832		Egan Bk of Sports 397: It is all U.P. — take him away; he is a brave little man; but he cannot win.
1837		‘Werry last of Dustmen!’ in Sam Weller’s Favorite Song Book 6: It’s all U.P. with us d’ye see.
1845		Disraeli Sybil Bk VI 177: ‘Then it is U-P,’ said Mick.
1852		Bell’s Life in Sydney 24 Jan. 2/7: He felt it was all U.P.
1854		‘Cuthbert Bede’ Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) II 176: Then it would have been all u p, and I should have been obleedged to have invented another dodge.
1861		G.J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing (1890) 209: But I did think for five minutes before I saw your fire that it was about U.P.
1875		‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 28: And everyone thought it was all U P / Till the damsel up and spoke.
1877		Verne ‘Ec-cen-tri-ci-ty’ 🎵 They say my reason’s gone from me, / And with my brains ’tis all U.P.
1881-2		T.B. Reed Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 216: ‘Don’t go and funk it, old man, or it’s all U P’.
1893		‘’Arriet on Labour’ in Punch 26 Aug. 88/2: When a woman’s fairly spliced, it’s U.P. with the larky.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 19 Feb. 1/3: Princess Victoria Eugenia, / [...] / Has buster’d off a horse, we see, / And really seems close up U.P.
1900		Sporting Times 28 July 3/5: ’E’ll lead ’em a dance, [...] It’ll all be U.P. with our friend Beerbohm Tree, / Why, ’e’d make even Robertson sit up.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 July 1/6: If she does [have children} it’s awl U.P.
1905		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘A Polyglot Policeman’ Sporting Times 1 Apr. 1/4: That plummy little nursemaid who’s at number twenty-three, / German Gretchen, in whose praise I’ve often sung, / Smiled upon me till that rozzer came, and now it’s all U P.
1913		Mills & Scott [perf. Arthur Lloyd] ‘Bewware of the Widow’ 🎵 It’s all U.P. - when she sings you love’s sweet song.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 307: Of course an action would lie, says J.J. It implies that he is not compos mentis. U.p. up.
1929		C.G. Gordon Crooks of the Und. 60: I realised that it was all UP, and unconditionally surrendered.
1948		S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I ii: Once you get there it’s all U.P.