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turn-up

noun

Meaning

  1. Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.
  2. A fight or disturbance.
  3. The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.
  4. A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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