Noun
the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
Source: WordNetThat leads to some shows when the Shockers are taking batting practice and, of course, a friendly game of one-upmanship. Source: Internet
US ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher, forgetting her diplomatic posting, added a dash of one-upmanship. Source: Internet
“Instead we have got yet another event managed by centralised government resulting, inevitably, in political one-upmanship.” Source: Internet
On the one hand, we were competing on one-upmanship. Source: Internet
We are not looking to our elected officials for posturing, malign sound bites and bitter one-upmanship. Source: Internet
"We've been texting each other for years, and he would always send me pictures of wildflowers and so forth to identify," Gilbreth said, recalling a bit of banter and jovial one-upmanship to the ongoing exchange. Source: Internet