user-upper
user-upper noun: someone or something that uses up or exhausts quickly.
Noun
user-upper (plural user-uppers)
- Someone or something that uses up or exhausts quickly.
- I am trying to understand this idea of sustainability and I think it is connected very much to what Mr. Emmons is saying about staying put and encouraging people to become stewards and trustees of the land instead of user-uppers of the land.1994, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources, The Changing Needs of the West, page 58
- And when I've got leftover chicken, I often use this recipe as a first-stop user-upper, adding cold cooked shredded chicken to the pepper and onions and tossing altogether in the pan till piping hot all the way through.2015, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Kitchen
Forms of user-upper
| plural | user-uppers |
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Questions about user-upper
- What does user-upper mean?
- User-upper means someone or something that uses up or exhausts quickly.
- What part of speech is user-upper?
- User-upper is a noun.
- What is the plural of user-upper?
- The plural of user-upper is user-uppers.
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