Usually means: Draw attention away from others.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. upstage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upstage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upstage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upstage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upstage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Upstage, upstage: Wordnik
  7. upstage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. upstage: Wiktionary
  9. upstage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. upstage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. upstage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. upstage: Dictionary.com
  13. upstage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. upstage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. UpStage, Upstage (film), Upstage (magazine), Upstage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. upstage: Rhymezone
  17. upstage: Free Dictionary
  18. upstage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. upstage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. upstage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. upstage: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. UPSTAGE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. upstage, upstage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Upstage: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.
adverb:  Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.
adverb:  Away from the audience or camera.
adjective:  At the rear of a stage.
adjective:  (figurative, obsolete) Haughty, aloof.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
verb:  (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.

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