uppers

• “Soles wear out in short order and the leather they are using for the uppers is cheap.”

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• “The upper peninsula residents are known as uppers (ph), and they eat something called pasties, which are a eat a meat based product that has a crust around it.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2004

• “Contrasting, but also complementing the uppers is a gum sole, complete with tan stitching. adidas Originals Campus 80s "A. 039" Tan adidas Originals Campus 80s "A. 039" Tan adidas Originals Campus 80s "A. 039" Tan”

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• “For other nations it must be a downer, but being on our uppers is our favourite position.”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph

• “Many of these shoes have "leather-like" and "man-made" uppers - in other words, they're constructed out of pleather.”

  The Budget Fashionista

• “They had to be taking some kind of uppers to make it through each day, given how little sleep they were getting.”

  Simon & Schuster: Stupid Cupid

• “It is quite true that the 'uppers' are getting more 'upper'.... and therefore more detached from daily reality.”

  Professionals or the Populace ?

• “The neat bottines, _à la_ Diane Chasseresse, took a charming touch of lightness from the aluminium nails which decorated the "uppers" with a quaint and original Dravidian cornice.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “There were going to be very few football matches; but "uppers" were played with the old keenness, and there was fierce competition for the last places in the scrum.”

  The Loom of Youth

• “As soon as the first keenness wore off he found the interminable "uppers," totally unrelieved by the excitement of matches, amazingly dull.”

  The Loom of Youth

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