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- noun Plural form of
upper . - noun The parts of a pair of
shoes that do not normally contact the ground.
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Examples
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Soles wear out in short order and the leather they are using for the uppers is cheap.
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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.
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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
culture Alex Kroviak 2010
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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 2009
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Many of these shoes have "leather-like" and "man-made" uppers - in other words, they're constructed out of pleather.
The Budget Fashionista Tracy Tjoeng 2009
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They had to be taking some kind of uppers to make it through each day, given how little sleep they were getting.
Stupid Cupid Rhonda Stapleton 2009
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It is quite true that the 'uppers' are getting more 'upper'.... and therefore more detached from daily reality.
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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 T. R. Swinburne
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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 Alec Waugh 1939
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