ˈupside
Also up-side.
[up- 1. Cf. Da. opside.]
1. The upper side or surface (of a thing); the upper half or part.
| 1611 Cotgr., Reboursant,..turning, or standing inside outward, or the vpside downe. 1654 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 316 Two foote 6 inches from the vpside of the trusse to the vpside of the floore. 1678 Moxon Mech. Ex. iv. 65 Till the whole upside of the Stuff be Plained. 1706 Swift Baucis & Philemon 59 With the upside down, to show Its inclination for below. 1833– [see downside n.]. 1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. 177 It should then be..put into a dry cloth with the upside down. 1867 Mrs. Whitney L. Goldthwaite v, This glass is in such a horrid light! I don't seem to have but half a face, and I can't tell which is the upside of that! |
2. upside of, above, beyond.
| 1890 N. & Q. 26 July 73/1 People whose ages are up-side of forty. |
3. (See up a. 2 b.) Also attrib.
| 1880 Daily News 13 Dec. 6/7 The upside road [of the railway]..was quite clear. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 7/3 The crowd that thronged the up-side of the station. |
4. Comm. An upward movement of share prices, etc.; also = upside potential. Also as adj., esp. upside potential, the possibility of (gain from) such a rise in value.
| 1961 in Webster. 1969 Punch 5 Feb. 206/1 The share price..needs to improve by only 50 per cent... Likewise, your original upside potential would be considerably higher. 1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Analysis xvi. 175 Most parameters have up-side and down-side possibilities in addition to a most probable value. 1983 Sunday Tel. 27 Feb. 20/7 The share price..is vulnerable to even the most modest of bear rumour and.. the downside substantially exceeds the upside. 1983 Observer 29 May 19/1 Could Pilkington Brothers..be poised to meet that dream investment criterion—downside risk low; upside potential high? 1984 Times 18 June 17/3 The upside should again be approximate yield parity with the equity market. |
5. quasi-adv. (or prep.): upside (one's) head, knot, (of a blow) on the head; esp. to go upside (someone's) head, etc., to strike on the head; to attack or fight. Chiefly U.S. Blacks’.
| 1970 H. E. Roberts Third Ear 14/2 Upside one's head, to fight someone. 1971 Black Scholar Apr.–May 35/2 This is until a white cop comes up and go upside your knot. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 6 The TV slap of a pigstick upside some sister's head in front of an Alabama courthouse. 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 33/3 There is a further penalty of a hit upside the head for stiffing the toll collector. 1978 J. Wambaugh Black Marble iv. 28 When I busted her old man that time he went upside her head with a meat mallet. |