upper
/ˈʌpɚ/ sustantivo C2En español: empeine
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- Anything that cheers one up.
- The upper portion of something.
- The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole. · Holonyms: shoe, boot· genuine leather upper / balance manmade [label on a shoe]
- The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
- Someone with higher social standing
- A senior student.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
Plural uppers
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He found a serpent in the upper branches of the tree, and again being greatly alarmed, he threw himself into the river, where a crocodile caught him and ate him.
It is a considerable house, unfurnished, so far as I could judge, in the upper rooms.
The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us!
They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.
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