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Plural of upper

regular plural

The plural of upper is uppers.

Forms of upper

Singularupper /ˈʌpə/
Pluraluppers
Countablecountable

Uppers in a sentence

  • She is always zooted up on some really foul combination of uppers and downers and Rollerblading.1997, Maggie Estep, Diary of an Emotional Idiot: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 6
  • It is critical to know which drugs are uppers and downers to avoid this combination.2024 April 10 [2020 August 27], Nick B., “Which Drugs Are Uppers And Downers?”, in The Freedom Center, archived from the original on 21 Feb...
  • His shoes were so worn that he was walking on his uppers.From the entry uppers
  • We were all coming down from taking purple hearts, the fashionable uppers of the period.2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245. From the entry purple heart
  • Feelings of exhaustion and depression set in and users seek more uppers to ward off what’s known as a “crash”.2024 April 10 [2020 August 27], Nick B., “Which Drugs Are Uppers And Downers?”, in The Freedom Center. From the entry stimulant

Meaning of upper

  1. adjective At a higher physical position, level, rank or order.
  2. adjective Situated on higher ground, further inland, more upstream, or more northerly.
  3. adjective Younger, more recent.

Full definition of upper

Questions about the plural of upper

What is the plural of upper?
The plural of upper is uppers.
Is upper countable?
Upper is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upper (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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