# Is "squaring up" defined in the legal code?

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**Created:** [July 2, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-squaring-up-defined-in-the-legal-code/1003635 "2024-07-02T15:23:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-squaring-up-defined-in-the-legal-code/1003635/26 "2024-07-04T13:29:55Z")

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We just had this thread on “squaring up.”

> [@Please decipher this saying on a t-shirt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-saying-on-a-t-shirt/1002737/1):
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> In the endless ads online for Temu, for fathers day they are peddling t-shirts with sayings, and one of them goes: “I Love My Wife but sometimes I want to square up.” I looked it up for a definition, still don’t get it? What does this mean?

Incidentally, if I type “definite square up” in Google, the fight posture definition is the first one given. (From Oxford Dictionaries.) I was a little surprised to find out it had an older etymology than “square up” meaning to settle debts.

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