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A vulgar exclamation of contempt, as in So you think you can beat me? Well, up yours! This expression, a shortening of the even more vulgar stick it up your ass , is sometimes accompanied by an obscene gesture (see give the finger ). [ Vulgar slang ; mid-1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
President Obama brought his A game to this second debate, and you will have to step up yours in Debate 3.
Cohen's main point is that, "We'll give up our refugee status… if you give up yours."
My taxi will be loitering on Sixteenth and will pick up yours as it passes and follow it to the Embassy.
If I asked you to break up yours for the same reason, what would you say to me?
I have made up my mind to let you make up yours, without urging you further upon the subject; but I must reply to one thing.
It's me that's used to fires—ye'll see how I'll blow up yours for ye, miss.
I've eaten up all the money, and I shall eat up yours as well.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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