Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An upward curve, as of a pitched base-ball.
- noun That which shoots up or separates from a main stem; an offshoot. Nature, XLI. 228.
- To shoot upward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To shoot upward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
shoot upward .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another great upshoot is that I don't have to buy a junk food product or some kind of raffle ticket for a prize I don't really need anyhow.
A confession Tyler 2009
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You're going to hear a lot more of that from Barack Obama and that's the upshoot of all this, Wolf.
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The upshoot of all of that, though, was that I ended up behind on absolutely everything.
Archive 2007-05-20 Dayle A. Dermatis 2007
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But the upshoot is that the Palestinian president is saying there is now a state of emergency and that as a result he's dismantling the coalition that had earlier been formed.
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The upshoot of all of that, though, was that I ended up behind on absolutely everything.
On the road again... Dayle A. Dermatis 2007
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Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.
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The force behind the blow will be less and this shot will tend to “upshoot”.
Find Your Own Fundamentals BOB TOSKI 1992
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The force behind the blow will be less and this shot will tend to “upshoot”.
Find Your Own Fundamentals BOB TOSKI 1992
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Yirunta left his six-legged partner with instructions and then led them out onto the seedy boulevard, heading for the nearest upshoot.
Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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Their Neanderthal escort led them into an upshoot.
Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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