turn-ups

Noun

turn-up (plural turn-ups)

1. Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.
   • Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?

   Synonyms:

   cuff, trouser cuff

2. (dated) A fight or disturbance.
   • I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against...1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
3. The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.
   • I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.
4. (figuratively) A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.
   • Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.1896, Henry Smurthwaite, Racing Illustrated, volume 3, page 236
5. (historical) A book, intended for children, with flaps that can be lifted to reveal underlying text or images.
   • Books with flaps which lifted up and down and known as "turn-ups" came about in 1795 and were listed in Laurie and Whittle's catalogue.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 138