Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which upsets; also, one who or that which sets up; specifically, a tool used in upsetting a tire.
Wiktionary
- n. One who upsets (something); a disrupter.
- n. A person or device that turns something upside down
WordNet 3.0
- n. an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor
Etymologies
- upset + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Did anyone ever notice that in the last 100 years the only time the Democrats could win the presidency was if there was a third pary upsetter 1912, 1992”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Senator Schumer’s Says No More GOP Justices:
“KING: Every time I moderate a debate on this issue they get upsetter and upsetter.”
“KING: Every time I moderate a debate on this issue, they get upsetter and upsetter.”
“How, then, shall the Satanist return to his role as the upsetter of stasis?”
“No doubt she looked upon her with an evil eye, as being the upsetter of all her plans.”
“I know you for a cunning contriver -- an upsetter of calculations -- but no Turk.”
“He had always been an upsetter of conventions, and a law unto himself.”
“Partly through deference to the good Dean's delicately hinted distaste for that upsetter of decorous households, and partly to allow his follower to attend to his own domestic affairs, he had left Chipmunk in London.”
“Germany until Napoleon, that upsetter of so many comfortable sinecures, drove them out.”
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
“It was at this happy pitch that he replied to the prime upsetter of his peace.”
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