Usually means: Striving to outdo another person.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word one upmanship:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. one upmanship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. one-upmanship: Merriam-Webster
  3. one-upmanship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. one-upmanship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. one-upmanship, one-upmanship: Collins English Dictionary
  6. one-upmanship: Vocabulary.com
  7. one-upmanship: Wordnik
  8. one-upmanship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. one-upmanship: Wiktionary
  10. one-upmanship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. one-upmanship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. one-upmanship: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. one-upmanship, one upmanship: Dictionary.com
  14. one-upmanship: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. One-Upmanship, One-upmanship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. one-upmanship: Rhymezone
  17. one-upmanship: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. one-upmanship: FreeDictionary.org
  19. one-upmanship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. one-upmanship: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. one-upmanship: Idioms



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