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upper crusts

upper crusts is the plural of upper crust.

Meaning of upper crust

Noun

upper crust (plural upper crusts)

  1. (idiomatic, usually) The social elite, the highest social class.
    • I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point.1894, Mark Twain, “A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget”, in Essays on Paul Bourget
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upper, crust. The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.
    • She went to get her tarts . . . but some one had stolen all the fruit out of them by lifting up the upper crust.1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 20”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC

Questions about upper crusts

What is upper crusts the plural of?
Upper crusts is the plural of upper crust.

Words near upper crusts in the dictionary

  1. Upper Corindi
  2. Upper Corris
  3. Upper Corsica
  4. Upper Crater Lake
  5. upper crust
  6. upper crusts
  7. Upper Crystal Creek
  8. upper cut
  9. upper cuts
  10. Upper Dagsian
  11. Upper Darby

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