User-upper
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone or something that uses up or exhausts quickly. informal
"I am trying to understand this idea of sustainability and I think it is connected very much to what Mr. Emmons is saying about staying put and encouraging people to become stewards and trustees of the land instead of user-uppers of the land."
Example
More examples"I am trying to understand this idea of sustainability and I think it is connected very much to what Mr. Emmons is saying about staying put and encouraging people to become stewards and trustees of the land instead of user-uppers of the land."
More for "user-upper"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.