Upper Crust Definition

noun

Upper class.

Webster's New World
The highest social class or group.
American Heritage

Used other than as an idiom: see upper,"Ž crust. The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.

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adjective

(idiomatic, informal) Posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.

An upper-crust London party.
They're aiming for a more upper-crust clientele.
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Other Word Forms of Upper Crust

Noun

Singular:
upper crust
Plural:
upper-crusts

Origin of Upper Crust

  • First known use as an idiom: 1836.

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Upper Crust Sentence Examples

  • The servants sat down to their meal at a later time to the ' upper crust ' .

  • The exiles among whom Ezekiel lived, like him, had come from the upper crust of Judean society.

  • It was in the attic that Hornibrook is rumored to have gotten his jollies at the expense of the snooty Arkansas upper crust.

  • Lorelai and her boyfriend Christopher (frequent guest star David Sutcliffe, now on Private Practice) got pregnant at 16, devastating their blue blood upper crust parents.

  • The surface soil of Berar is to a great extent a rich black vegetable mould; and where this surface soil does not exist, there are muram and trap with a shallow upper crust of inferior light soil.

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