What does one-up mean?
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one-up
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GCIDE
one-upadjective
Ahead of a friend or competitor in some competitive activity.
Wiktionary
one-upnoun
An additional life or an object that increases the player's number of chances or "lives" by one.
If you hit that block, you can get a one-up.
one-upverb
To outdo, to do something slightly better than a competitor's prior effort.
Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of one-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of one-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of one-up in a Sentence
Close your eyes again, change the names. Let me make one up for you, the Iranians, this is totally made up, the Iranians interfere in the election to help elect Barack Obama because they think theyll get a better nuclear deal from him. And during that election, an Obama aide meets with the Iranians and talks about the dirt they have that will help Obama get elected. And the FBI finds out about that. We should not investigate that?
I joined Walmart +, Amazon Prime and GameStop's Pro membership so I can have an early chance of buying a system -- and after a year, I still haven't gotten one, i have never in my life seen a console where one year after it came out you can't just go into a store and pick one up.
When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.
Money, perks… you don’t have to keep trying to one-up the company next to you in terms of what perks you’re offering but how you treat your employees on a regular basis plays a key role in how to keep your employees satisfied.
Secondly, I haven't seen any evidence of anything there anyway. And third, we have to remember that he will either find a vulnerability or make one up.
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