Word.ws English Dictionary

gotten one up on

gotten one up on is the past participle of get one up on.

Meaning of get one up on

Verb

get one up on (third-person singular simple present gets one up on, present participle getting one up on, simple past got one up on, past participle (UK) got one up on or (US) gotten one up on)

  1. (transitive) To outdo.
    • So why not rob these red cloaks? Serves em right for letting their guard down. Isn’t that the unwritten law of the land? If someone gets one up on you, you deserve it for letting them?2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club

Questions about gotten one up on

What is gotten one up on the past participle of?
Gotten one up on is the past participle of get one up on.

Words near gotten one up on in the dictionary

  1. gotten on the stick
  2. gotten on to
  3. gotten on up
  4. gotten on with
  5. gotten one over on
  6. gotten one up on
  7. gotten one's
  8. gotten one's a into g
  9. gotten one's act together
  10. gotten one's affairs in order
  11. gotten one's arse into gear

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten one up on (page history and authors); get one up on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gotten one up on.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gotten_one_up_on. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.