What does turn-up mean?
Turn-up means Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter..
Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?
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 hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.
I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.
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.
I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.
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.
Use turn-up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Turn-up means Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter..
Common synonyms include cuff, trouser cuff.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?
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