one up
Speech parts
1. one up - Noun
2. one up - Verb
Meaning
one up (third-person singular simple present one ups, present participle one upping, simple past and past participle one upped)
(idiomatic) To outdo, to perform something slightly better than a competitor's prior effort.
Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights.
(especially in phrases like get one up on someone) An advantage over someone.
WePay wants to get one-up in the mobile payments race with its new iOS app for small businesses.
(video games) Alternative spelling of 1-up (“extra life”)
If you hit that block, you can get a one up.
one-up (third-person singular simple present one-ups, present participle one-upping, simple past and past participle one-upped)
Alternative form of one up
one-up (plural one-ups)
Alternative form of one up
Alternative names
one-up
Examples
A wide and a dot follow, then Cooper picks one up and then some, down on one knee to turn length ball into a half-volley, carting a one-bounce four over deep backward square.
At the quark level, W − emission turns a down quark into an up quark, turning a neutron (one up quark and two down quarks) into a proton (two up quarks and one down quark).
Bergreen, p. 183 But it was not just to one-up rival Sarnoff that Paley led his talent raid; he, and all of radio, had their eye on the coming force that threw a shadow over radio throughout the 1940s – television.
A Conspiracy in Belgravia works well on its own as the mystery within is contained to this one book, however I feel it's best if you read the first book before picking this one up.
Grocery store manager Joanne Swartz set one up on the grass near her Huntington Beach apartment complex and called it “Jo’s Love Pantry.”
Gallo keeps warning people about Violet from Firehouse 20, saying she will always try to one-up him and they are not understanding him as she is the devil.