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uptown
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uptown US and Canadian
1. towards, in, or relating to some part of a town that is away from the centre
2. such a part of a town, esp a residential part


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Port backstage at Fashion Week in the first days of her entry-level PR job, learn that downtown residents like fedoras and neon wall paint while uptowners host undermine-y dinner parties, and witness a non-physical confrontation between a bunch of gossipy boys at Tenjune.
If You Didn't Watch The City Last Night, Here's Why by Caroline Bankoff / The New York Observer
The Jewish version of that debate was the disdain of the Uptowners (German Jews) for the Downtowners (Russian immigrants).
Immigrant Jews in Paris, London, and New York: A Comparative Approach by GREEN, NANCY L. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
But he admits to his audience, a mixed crowd of stylishly dressed uptowners, baseball-capped high schoolers, and women in black leather downtown chic, that "my prediction began to look very bad.
Adieu to the avante-garde by Limaye, Kanchan / Reason
 
 
 
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