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uptownchiefly North American adjective /ˈʌptaʊn /1Of, in, or characteristic of the residential area of a town or city: uptown Manhattan an uptown bar...- The whole crew was in an uptown bar, talking quietly.
- We have tracked down some of the more prominent residents in the uptown apartment building that had the nine-foot-wide nest of a red-tailed hawk removed the other day.
- The most common dog in Japan is making its way to the United States, taking up residence in uptown penthouses and becoming a fashion statement for the hip crowd in Greenwich Village or Chelsea.
1.1Of or characteristic of an affluent area or people: I don’t pay uptown prices...- The wine list, again, was cheap compared to uptown prices and so we settled for a bottle of Brouilly at just under thirty bucks.
- You'd expect high prices like that in uptown nightclubs, not in a pokey little indie pub.
- Here's another uptown brasserie with downtown prices, aiming at the guests from the Central Park South hotels who may not want to pay the out-of-sight prices of the in-house eateries.
adverb /ʌpˈtaʊn /In or into an uptown area: he couldn’t get a taxi to take him back uptown...- They walk through neighborhoods uptown.
- This resulted in three smaller marches uptown as protesters mainly ignored police warnings to stay on the sidewalk and instead spilled out onto the streets.
- For about a year, until I lost it putting out the trash, I had an expensive Hamilton watch that I wore on expeditions uptown, sliding it ostentatiously as far down wrist as it would go.
noun /ˈʌptaʊn /The uptown area of a town or city: Cambridge’s uptown...- All of them watched as the dogs ran onto the train tracks that divided the ghetto from the uptown.
Derivatives Rhymes brown, Browne, clown, crown, down, downtown, drown, frown, gown, low-down, noun, renown, run-down, town, upside-down |