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user-uppers

user-uppers is the plural of user-upper.

Meaning of user-upper

Noun

user-upper (plural user-uppers)

  1. (informal) 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

Questions about user-uppers

What is user-uppers the plural of?
User-uppers is the plural of user-upper.

Words near user-uppers in the dictionary

  1. user-friendliness
  2. user-friendly
  3. user-hostile
  4. user-unfriendly
  5. user-upper
  6. user-uppers
  7. user-worked
  8. userbar
  9. userbars
  10. userbase
  11. userbases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: user-uppers (page history and authors); user-upper (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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