• UPTICK
n. 1970 US sl. – improvement; raising
• UPTIGHT
adj. 1. in difficulties …1930s sl.
adj. 2. nervous, anxious, tense …1934 US
adj. 3. angry, bad-tempered, annoyed …1934 colloq.
adj. 4. trapped, in a position from which there is no escape …1940s African-American sl.
adj. 5. close, intimate, very friendly …1950s sl.
adj. 6. very attractive …1960s US college sl.
adj. 7. having sexual intercourse …1960s sl.
adj. 8. satisfactory, good, excellent …1962 sl.
adj. 9. having no money …1967 sl.
adj. 10. inhibited, narrow-minded, very correct and strait-laced …1968 US
adj. 11. under emotional control, seemly …1969 sl.
adj. 12. addicted …1970s sl.
• UPTION
n. a commotion; a disturbance …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• UP-TIP
vb. to upset, to tip up ..1894 Eng. dial.
• UP TO
adj. aware of, knowledgeable about …L18 sl.
prep. incumbent upon, obligatory …L19 sl.
• UP TO ALL LURKS
adj. wide-awake, cunning …M19 Aust. & NZ sl.
• UP TO DICK
adj. 1. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …L19 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. in order; in good condition …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO DOLLY’S WAX
adj. absolutely full of food …1940s Aust. sl.
• UP TO DOOR
adj. up to standard, as required …L19 sl.
• UP TO G
adj. very best, superlative …L19 US sl.
• UP TO HERE
adj. 1. bored, disgusted, utterly intolerant of an event, someone’s statements, actions, etc. …L19 sl.
adj. 2. full of food and/or drink …1900s sl.
• UP TO MUD
adj. no good, unsatisfactory; worthless …1931 Aust. sl.
• UP TO NO GOOD
adj. having sexual intercourse with someone …1980s sl.
• UP TO ONE’S ARMPITS
adv. to a great extent; completely; thoroughly; having a large amount of …1958 Amer. sl.
• UP TO ONE’S ARSE
adj. totally involved in, overwhelmed by …1960s sl.
• UP TO ONE’S ASS
adj. totally involved in, overwhelmed by …1960s sl.
• UP TO ONE’S ASSHOLE
adj. totally involved in, overwhelmed by …1960s sl.
• UP TO ONE’S ASS IN ALLIGATORS
adj. 1973 US sl. – in very serious troubles, facing overwhelming problems; in a dangerous or hopelessly confused situation; hence, confused, agitated
• UP TO ONE’S ASS IN RATTLESNAKES
adj. in very serious troubles, facing overwhelming problems …1940s US sl.
• UP TO ONE’S EARS IN ALLIGATORS
adj. in very serious troubles, facing overwhelming problems …1964 US sl.
• UP TO ONE’S EARS IN RATTLESNAKES
adj. in very serious troubles, facing overwhelming problems …1980s US sl.
• UP TO ONE’S GOSSIP
adj. alert to the tricks or the illicit or criminal intentions of one …1797 UK criminals’ sl.
• UP TO ONE’S NECK IN SHIT
adj. in very great difficulties; in dire trouble or circumstances …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
• UP TOP
n. 1. northern Australia …1950s Aust. sl.
n. 2. a person’s intelligence …1961 UK sl.
n. 3. a woman’s breasts, or the area of the breasts …2003 UK sl.
• UP TO PAR
adj. satisfactory …1899 sl.
• UPTOPPER
n. an inhabitant of northern Australia …1950s Aust. sl.
• UP TO PUSSY’S BOW
adj. absolutely full of food …1940s Aust. sl.
• UP TO PUTTY
adj. worthless, broken down, ineffectual …1916 Aust. sl.
• UP TO SAMPLE
adj. 1. in order; in good condition …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO SCRATCH
adj. 1. in order; in good condition …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO SHIT
adj. worthless, ineffectual …1910s Aust. sl.
• UP TO SLUM
adj. knowing, aware, on the look out for tricks …E19 sl.
• UP TO SNUFF
adj. 1. knowing, not easily deceived, capable, aware …1811 Brit. sl.
adj. 2. up to standard; hence, satisfactory; excellent, perfect …1931 sl.
adj. 3. in order; in good condition …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 4. in good health or condition …colloq.
• UP TO SNUFF AND A PINCH ABOVE IT
adj. efficient, capable, aware …E19 sl.
• UP TO SNUFF AND TWOPENNY
adj. efficient, capable, aware …E19 sl.
• UP TO THE ARMS IN WOOD
phr. standing in the pillory …E19 sl.
• UP TO THE ARSE IN
phr. completely overwhelmed by …20C sl., orig. US
• UP TO THE ASS
adj. overwhelmed by, surrounded by, in the midst of, deeply engaged …1864 Amer. sl.
• UP TO THE CACKLE
adj. aware of what is going on, shrewd, very experienced or knowledgeable …L18 sl.
• UP TO THE DODGE
adj. shrewd; knowledgeable; alert …1846 US sl.
• UP TO THE EARS
adj. 1. deeply involved; hence, superabundantly supplied …1839 colloq.
adj. 2. drunk …Bk2009 sl.
• UP TO THE EYEBALLS
adj. drunk …Bk2009 sl.
• UP TO THE GILLS
adj. drunk …Bk2009 sl.
• UP TO THE GOSSIP
adj. aware of what is going on, shrewd, very experienced or knowledgeable …L18 sl.
• UP TO THE HAMMER
adj. up to the standard, first-rate, excellent …1884 colloq.
• UP TO THE HANDLE
adj. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO THE HEFT
adj. full of anger, angry …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• UP TO THE HIGH-WATER MARK
adj. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO THE KNOCKER
adj. 1. fashionably dressed or over-dressed …1844 sl.
adj. 2. capable, up to a task …M19 sl.
adj. 3. in prime condition; enjoying oneself …L19 sl.
adj. 4. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO THE LAST NOTCH
adv. to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit …1897 Amer. dial.
• UP TO THE MARK
adj. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• UP TO THE NAILS
adj. full up, filled to repletion with food, etc. …1964 Sc.
• UP TO THE NINES
adj. splendid, first-rate …1895 Eng. dial.
adv. to the highest degree, to perfection …L18 sl.
• UP TO THE NOTCH
adj. up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adv. to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit …1790 Amer. dial.
• UP TO THE RIGS
adj. expert; wide-awake, knowing …1889 Eng. dial.
• UP TO THE SCRATCH
adj. thoroughly competent, capable …1885 Eng. dial.
• UP TO THE STUMP
adj. impoverished, out of money …M19 US sl.
• UP TO THE TRY-ON
adj. aware of what is going on, shrewd, very experienced or knowledgeable …L18 sl.
• UP TO THIS
adj. drunk …Bk2009 sl.
• UP TO TRAP
adj. knowing, up to date …1828 Sc.
• UP TO TRIPE
adj. worthless, unpleasant, distasteful …1900s sl.
• UPTOWN
adj. 1. stylish, sophisticated; prosperous, worldly, rich …1855 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. upscale, prosperous …1946 US sl.
n. 1. the upper classes …1950s W. Indies Rasta
n. 2. cocaine, always considered the drug of the more affluent ..1970s US drug culture sl.
n. 3. in pool: the area at the head of the table …1993 US sl.
• UPTOWNISH
adj. stylish, sophisticated; prosperous …1966 Amer. dial.
• UP TO YOUR ARSE IN; UP TO YOUR ASS IN
phr. completely overwhelmed by …20C sl., orig. US
• UPTRIP
vb. to cause someone to make a mistake or commit a fault …1856 Amer. dial.
• UPTUCKER
n. 1. a hangman …1846 UK criminals’ sl. obs.
n. 2. the noose …1930s US prison sl.
• UPTY-UP
adj. snobbish. elitist …1910s sl.
• UPWARD
adj. 1. elevated …1827 Sc. obs.
adj. 2. of the wind: in the north …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• UPWARD DRAG
n. a hairstyle for men in which the hair is brushed forward over the forehead and cut in a straight line from ear to ear …L19 sl.
• UPWARDS
adj. of the wind: in the north …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• UP-WAXEN
adj. adult …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• UPWAYS
n. a snobbish, standoffish person …1970s African-American sl.
• UP WEST
n. the West End of London …1979 UK
• UP WITH THE CROWS
adj. awake, rising early …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
• UP-WREIL
vb. to wriggle up …1827 Sc. obs.
• UPYA!
int. a dismissive, contemptuous exclamation …1940s Aust. sl.
• UPYER!
int. an exclamation of contempt or derision …1941 sl. chiefly Aust.
• UP YOU!
int. 1. a dismissive, contemptuous exclamation …L19 sl.
int. 2. euphemism for ‘fuck you’ …L19 sl.
• UP YOU FOR THE RENT!
int. a dismissive, contemptuous exclamation …1930s Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR ALLEY!
1924 US sl. – apt to your style or taste
int. 1976 UK euphemism for ‘up your ass’ – used as a dismissive retort
• UP YOUR ARSE!; UP YOUR ASS!
int. an exclamation of contempt or derision …1956 sl.
• UP YOUR BACK!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR BROWN!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR BUM!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …1910s Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR BUM CHUM!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR BUTT!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR DATE MATE!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR FLUE!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR GIG!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR GIGGY!
int. an expression of contemptuous rejection …1961 Can.
• UP YOUR GUNGA!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR HOLE!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR JACKSIE!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1910s sl.
• UP YOUR JUMPER!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …1920s Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR NOSE!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …1979 sl.
• UP YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE AND TWICE AS FAR WITH A CHOCOLATE BAR!
int. an exclamation of scornful dismissal, rejection, insult, contempt, etc. …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
• UP YOUR OWN ARSE
adj. very self-involved …2000 UK sl.
• UP YOUR PIPE!
int. a dismissive insulting exclamation …1930s sl.
• UP YOURS!
int. an exclamation of contempt or derision …1956 sl.
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