Definitions

one-up

VERB

trump

Synonyms

WEAK

angle beguile bluff exploit finagle finesse jockey maneuver manipulate operate play play games pull strings pull wires rig wangle

Example Sentences

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I was the first one up the next morning.

From Literature

“The bottoms are full of them. We could have spooked one up when we came to the spring; and it ran by the team and scared them.”

From Literature

I could pick one up and pet it any time I wanted and it wouldn’t bite me.

From Literature

Still, the argument is that without a fully dedicated F1 engine department, Honda lacked a team designing and building a new engine to the revised rules for this year, and had to build one up again more or less from scratch.

From BBC

Second, how do you set one up?

From MarketWatch