Usually means: Unexpected outcomes in competitive events.
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  1. upsets: Merriam-Webster
  2. upsets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upsets: Collins English Dictionary
  4. upsets: Vocabulary.com
  5. Upsets, upsets: Wordnik
  6. upsets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. upsets: Wiktionary
  8. upsets: Dictionary.com
  9. upsets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. upsets: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. upsets: Legal dictionary

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  1. upsets: Encyclopedia

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  1. upsets: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. upsets: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (upset)

adjective:  (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
adjective:  (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
noun:  (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
noun:  (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
noun:  (automobile insurance) An overturn.
noun:  An upset stomach.
noun:  (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
noun:  (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
noun:  (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb:  (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
verb:  (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
verb:  (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
verb:  (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
verb:  (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
verb:  (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
verb:  To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
verb:  To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
verb:  (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
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