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one ups

one ups is the plural of one up.

one ups is the third-person singular simple present indicative of one up.

Meaning of one up

Noun

one up (plural one ups)

  1. (especially) An advantage over someone.
    • WePay wants to get one-up in the mobile payments race with its new iOS app for small businesses.

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Questions about one ups

What is one ups the plural of?
One ups is the plural of one up.

Words near one ups in the dictionary

  1. one under
  2. one unders
  3. one up
  4. one upped
  5. one upping
  6. one ups
  7. one way
  8. one way or another
  9. one way or other
  10. one way or the other
  11. one weird trick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one ups (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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