Meaning of turn-up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.
2. A fight or disturbance.
   dated
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.
   figuratively
5. A book, intended for children, with flaps that can be lifted to reveal underlying text or images.
   historical

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Examples

“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.”

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