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uptown(dictionary)
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Uptown Snack Shop(tourism)

uptown (iou)



uptown adverb, adjective, & noun. Chiefly N. Amer. E19.
[from UP- + TOWN noun.]
A. adverb. In or into the upper or more prosperous or residential part of a town or city. E19.
D. Steel Oliver lived uptown, in an apartment..on East 79th Street. M. Amis He would drive me uptown twenty blocks.
b. adjective. Situated, directed, or occurring uptown; pertaining to or characteristic of such an area; transf. sophisticated, prosperous, elegant. M19.
Times A clean-cut, middle-class uptown young man. Guardian The Peachtree club, in uptown Atlanta.
C. noun. The uptown part of a town or city. M20.
J. Gores High-rollers from uptown out for a night of slumming.
uptowner noun an inhabitant of an uptown area E20.