upmanship 

short for one-upmanship.

He always exercises upmanship upon me.

upmanship by uttam maharjan February 8, 2013

pun-upmanship 

A situation in which two or more people trade an ever-escalating quantity of puns on a given topic, ending only when all except one have quit due to tiredness/boredom/psychosis/etc.

(Upon seeing that it's snowing outside)

Person A: "Snow it begins!"

Person B: "Snow comment."

Person A: "Why do you have to be snow cynical? If you don't like it, you could at least flake it."

Person B: "Whoa! Don't get flurrious with me just because you can't sleet things from my point of view."

Person A: "I have to admit: I wasn't expecting such a chilly reception. Anyway, you may be a bit of an ice queen right now, but I bet you'll warm up to things eventually."

Person B: "... You win."

Person A: "Ha! In pun-upmanship, there can only be pun!"

pun-upmanship by 2lol2quit November 24, 2010

One-upmanship 

Is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor, rival or enemy/friend.

X: aww i like kati
y: ohhh yeaahh...you doo do yaa (he (y) doesn't like her but just wants to ruin the chances of them getting together, so behind (x's) back gets her (Kati) to go out with him, X is annoyed about them getting together but pretends its not bothering him, meanwhile X is using the same M.O 'method of operating' to get one back.

The one-upmanship escalates until either one stops, or they realise there both at it..(which would quite amsuing for them, or embarrasing.. depends how you take it ;)

One-upmanship by LJcalvert May 9, 2010

man-upmanship 

When a man dismisses another guy's depression because he's never been through it so thinks they just need to man up. Marked by a lack of empathy and a superiority complex, an attitude born out of toxic masculinity.

Have you read that douchebag's tweets? He thinks depression isn't real and that guys just need to [man up. Classic [man-upmanship

man-upmanship by Body Language September 15, 2017

One-Upmanship 

Expression to describe the dedication shown by someone who is amazingly sentimental with their passion to "one,-up" an opponent, who may or may not actually be concerned with the ability of the former.

"Yo, I tried to get a handful of them zoom-zooms, but several trust fund bitches were all about that one-upmanship, offering over cost for a bulk amount that should receive bulk rates.."

One-Upmanship by UpallNite December 11, 2021

Faggot One-Upmanship 

When gay guys compete as to who can be the most gay.

After Biden went out of his way to appoint tropishly gay individuals to his administration, Trump praised Arnold Palmer's cock in front of a crowd and then lived with Elon Musk for four months in a the most embarrassing game of Faggot One-Upmanship ever played.

Faggot One-Upmanship by Publius0987 September 18, 2025

one upmanshit 

A phenomenon that occasionally occurs in social gatherings that devolve into a nostalgia-fest conversation about fecal incidents such as soiling underwear, quality bowel movement and/or alcohol fueled defecating incidents. Inevitably, the conversation becomes a string of awful fish-stories about large bowel movements and creative placement and/or uses of them. The conversation becomes more and more repugnant at a exponential pace. Ultimately, the least attractive person of the coversation wins with the most horrifically grotesque story about his or her colon meat.

"...Last week, at Joe's bachelor party, Eric told us this story about crapping his pants on the way home from work that week. For some reason, the stripper decided she should become part of the conversation and told a story about how she once deuced through her g-string thereby cutting the turd in two. Eric rebutted by regaling us with a tale of a boat trip where he made some starboard diarrhea or something like that. That touched off about an hour of one upmanshit where each had one less appetizing story after the next...."

one upmanshit by JEUNT November 21, 2009