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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