one-upmanship

== English == === Etymology === From one-up +‎ -manship, probably modelled after gamesmanship. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /(ˌ)wʌnˈʌpmənʃɪp/ (General American) IPA(key): /wənˈəpmənˌʃɪp/ Hyphenation: one-up‧man‧ship === Noun === one-upmanship (plural one-upmanships) The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor. A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor. 1965, Max Gluckman, “Foreword”, in M[axwell] G[ay] Marwick, Sorcery in Its Social Setting: A Study of the Northern Rhodesian Ceŵa, Manchester: Published by the University of Manchester at the University Press, →OCLC, page v: I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general. His punctiliousness here contrasts sharply with the practice of some anthropologists who, in a contest of one-upmanship, score points either by ignoring earlier work or even by baldly asserting that it was all wrong. ==== Alternative forms ==== one-upsmanship one-up-manship oneupmanship ==== Derived terms ==== one-upwomanship ==== Related terms ==== one-downmanship ==== Translations ==== === See also === brinksmanship gamesmanship one up dick-measuring contest === Further reading === one-upmanship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia