one-upmanship
noun/(ˌ)wʌnˈʌpmənʃɪp/UK/wənˈəpmənˌʃɪp/US
Etymology
From one-up + -manship, probably modelled after gamesmanship.
Definitions
The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.
- They are focused on one-upmanship, which is the essence of a competitive spirit.
A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.
- Even these debates rarely constituted an exchange of ideas; they more resembled a contest of sectional champions, or a game of righteous, intellectual, and regional one-upsmanship.
The neighborhood
- neighborone-downmanship
- neighborbrinksmanship
- neighbordick-measuring contest
- neighborgamesmanship
- neighborone up
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for one-upmanship. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA