upstairs
IPA: ʌpstˈɛrz
noun
- An upper storey.
- (slang, euphemistic) A woman's breasts.
adjective
- Located on a higher floor or level of a building.
- (baseball, informal) Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.
adverb
- Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.
- (informal) In the brain or mind.
- (informal) In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
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Examples of "upstairs" in Sentences
- The only way to get to the upstairs is byclimbing a ladder:
- "Is that your quarrel with what you call the upstairs god system?"
- His side also got a lot of roof damage, so his upstairs is a big, fallen-plaster, mess.
- Meanwhile, the nice family living upstairs is starting to worry about the workaholic Dr. Jekyll.
- I just didn't want people knowing about my life, he explains as we sit in his office located just upstairs from the workshop.
- "I just didn't want people knowing about my life," he explains as we sit in his office located just upstairs from the workshop.
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