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one upped

one upped is the simple past and past participle of one up.

Meaning of one up

Verb

one up (third-person singular simple present one ups, present participle one upping, simple past and past participle one upped)

  1. (idiomatic) To outdo, to perform something slightly better than a competitor's prior effort.
    • Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights.

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Questions about one upped

What is one upped the simple past and past participle of?
One upped is the simple past and past participle of one up.

Words near one upped in the dictionary

  1. one turn kill
  2. one turn kills
  3. one under
  4. one unders
  5. one up
  6. one upped
  7. one upping
  8. one ups
  9. one way
  10. one way or another
  11. one way or other

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one upped (page history and authors); one up (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.

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