upmanship Idiom, Proverb
one-upmanship
one-upmanship|one|upmanship
v., informal Always keeping ahead of others; trying to keep an advantage. No matter what I do, I find that Jim has already done it better. He's an expert at one-upmanship. Jack took the news to the principal while we were still talking about it. He's very quick to practice one-upmanship.Compare: ONE UP. (The word one-upmanship was made up by a British humorist, Stephen Potter, on the pattern of such words as sportsmanship and workmanship.)
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