Definitions
A newly successful person seen as bold or presumptuous.
Word origin
From Middle English upstarten, upsterten, equivalent to up- + start.
Used in a sentence
“upstarts […]they call in reproach mushrooms”
“But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.”
“Th' Elfe therewith astownd, Upstarted lightly from his looser make, And his unready weapons gan in hand to take.”
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01“Newly successful person”7 letters
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