Citations:up

English citations of up

2011, G. R. Roberts, Murder In New Orleans‎^[1], page 181:
He knew the Irish had upped him, and unless something happened to change things, he and his men would probably be floating out into the Gulf of Mexico the next day.

1990, Mother Jones Magazine‎^[2], volume 15, number Nov-Dec, number 7, page 71:
She has upped him one, and his seething face is as red as a cock's comb. Having gained temporary advantage,
2010, Roben Jones, Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios‎^[3], page 102:
... was “kinda dark and gloomy. Following that, it seemed like he moped around for months. The kid had upped him.”
2011, G. R. Roberts, Murder In New Orleans‎^[4], page 181:
He knew the Irish had upped him, and unless something happened to change things, he and his men would probably be floating out into the Gulf of Mexico the next day.

2000, J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake‎^[5], page 36:
See, huge empires or countries live in fear of the other guy upping them before they can do it to the other guy, so it keeps on kickin off over and over again.

c. 1925, “The Great Match”, in Caryl Phillips, editor, The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology‎^[6], published 2010, page 50:
Lenglen upped her racket and prepared to quit the court.
1977, R. Rozanne Knudson, Fox Running‎^[7], page 88:
She planted her left foot, caught herself on the way down, upped her arms, up, upped her shoulders, up, upped her chin.
2005, anonymous author, Vanessa; Or The Vicar's Girl‎^[8], page 70:
That is to say, Margaret had upped her skirts and—wearing no drawers—was sprawled over a small round table

1901, Lucas Malet, The History of Sir Richard Calmady, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, book 3, chapter 2, page 189:
What a silly she was to trouble about it. And then when there was no hiding any longer how it was with her, he up and awayed to London, saying he would make a home for her there.
2011, Anthony J. Enciso, The Living and the Dead, Xlibris, →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (softcover), volume 2, part 2, chapter 20, 281:
Tavio pulled the phone away from his ringing ear. He recalled staring at Nate's empty bed back in the hotel room, praying that it had all been a horrible illusion. “Yeah, Mitch, he's gone. He up and left while I was out getting him something to eat.”

1971 April 5, John La Monica (of Florida), patent 3,734,501, series number 131,249, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 910, part 2, page 1228:
The game is controlled generally by rolling the "pitcher" dice of the "out" team and the indicia appearing on the "up" side of the "pitcher" dice sequentially controls the fate of the "batter" dice of the "up" team as they come to bat in a prearranged batting order.
1985, Hugh Heritage, What You Always Wanted to Know about CRAPS, page 183
The larger numbers would then appear more often on the up side or the dice number.
1991, William R. Eadington, Judy A. Cornelius, Gambling and Public Policy: International Perspectives, page 546:
[…] at the Palais Royal an operator cheats the players by jiggling the table to change the up - side of the dice.
1993,Calvert, Finite Mathematics: Overrun Edition, page 251:
You win a dollar if the down side of the card is different than the up side; otherwise, you lose a dollar.
1996, Lloyd R. Jaisingh, Sheldon M. Ross, Introductory Statistics, page 103:
[…] let X = the number on the up side of die I (say) and let Y = the number on the up side of die II (say). […] Since X + Y will represent the sum of the numbers on the two up side faces of the dice […]