Meaning of upper-crusty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or resembling the upper crust.
   informal
2. Aristocratic; socially superior.
   derogatory, informal

Examples

“Bentleys, Rolls, Aston-Martins, Ferraris, even James Bond's Thunderbird. Very nice crispy, upper-crusty sensation, right in with the real boys.”

“Richie now earns $100 a day designing similar saunas for upper-crusty clients throughout Los Angeles.”

“Seeing Rosalynn, Betty and Lady Bird, the politicians' wives, looking upper-crusty, and the many other women in Houston looking like fools, I concluded that I was viewing long-ago plays about the aristocracy and the jesters who performed and danced before them”

“After the Hollywood fiasco, she spurned the grime of the police beat and the ordeal of the running trial story. She began to specialize in the social and the upper-crusty.”

“"Mom, upper crusty?" I said. She just couldn't help but use ancient expressions.”

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