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- noun Plural form of
turnup .
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Examples
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If they hadn't posed such a threat, they would have looked laughable in their big, baggy suits with turnups, white socks, and swept-back hair.
Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993
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"Some boiled heggs and some happles and some raw turnups," said Bob.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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"Here's bad luck and no blue ruin to bad masters, and leg o 'mutton and turnups for trumps -- that's all I got to say, so here goes."
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And this they pretend to prove by some words in the cry; because, after the crier had bawled out, "Turnups, ho, buy my dainty turnups," he would sometimes add the two following verses: --
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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I mean that of turnups; not of turnips, according to the best orthography, but absolutely turnups.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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But a lot of Britons live in cities, and their enthusiasms - whether for trouser turnups or gastropubs - have a habit of spreading.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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But a lot of Britons live in cities, and their enthusiasms - whether for trouser turnups or gastropubs - have a habit of spreading.
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"_Blood an owns, boderation and blarney_," (said an Irishman, at that moment passing them with a hod of mortar on his shoulder, towards the new buildings, and leaving an ornamental patch as he went along on Bob's shoulder) "but I'll be a'ter _tipping turnups_ {l} to any b---- dy rogue that's tip to saying -- _Black's the white of the blue part of Pat
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