user-upper
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[edit]Noun
[edit]user-upper (plural user-uppers)
- (informal) Someone or something that uses up or exhausts quickly.
- 1994, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources, The Changing Needs of the West, page 58:
- I am trying to understand this idea of sustainability and I think it is connected very much to what Mr. Emmons is saying about staying put and encouraging people to become stewards and trustees of the land instead of user-uppers of the land.
- 2015, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Kitchen:
- And when I've got leftover chicken, I often use this recipe as a first-stop user-upper, adding cold cooked shredded chicken to the pepper and onions and tossing altogether in the pan till piping hot all the way through.