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2024 April 10 [2020 August 27], Nick B., “Which Drugs Are Uppers And Downers?”, inThe Freedom Center[1]:
Say, for example, a person starts with the use of a downer that reduces any anxiety and produces a sense of relaxation. When their energy levels drop, they take a stimulant in order to continue participating in the party or another event. This creates a cycle that could lead to significant drug use and drastically increases the risk of overdose or death. It is critical to know which drugs areuppers and downers to avoid this combination.
Anything that cheers one up.
1977-1980,Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors),We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Patrick was a cabbie & a dispatcher at Yellow Cab & when we got to the church where the [funeral] services were being held, the cabbies came out in force for Pat & there were at least 30 cabs pulling into the church parking lot. It was a realupper for a lot of us.
1992,Organizational, Direct Support, and General Support, page 5:
The slewing ring is basically a large bearing upon which theupper is mounted. The outer race of the slewing ring is bolted to theupper, and the inner race is bolted to the car-body.
2012, Reginald Laubin, Gladys Laubin,The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use:
These lines, GH and PC, are cut when the outline of theupper is cut out.
1895, Edward Parry Eardley-Wilmot, E. C. Streatfield,Charterhouse,page64:
EachUpper had his private Fag; but general fagdom consisted of obedience to the demand of everyUpper, no matter in whose House he happened to be.
2016,The Best of the Harvard Lampoon: 140 Years of American Humor:
It is advisable, for example, to learn the words to the school loyalty and to “Fair Harvard” in the event that you are “asked” to give an impromptu “concert” in the Yard for the benefit of theUppers.
1984, Robert Forrest Burgess,Handbook of trailer sailing, page90:
Next, take up slack equally on the twouppers until they are snug.
2009, Michael A. Alexander, Dennis J. Matthews,Pediatric Rehabilitation: Principles & Practice, page361:
During the seventh week, the limbs also rotate laterally in theuppers and medially in the lowers.
2010, Thomas Porky McDonald,Poet in the Grandstand:
In this compact middle level between theuppers and the lowers, I actually had a counter in front of me, where food or drink could be safely planted, without fear of knocking over onto any patrons sitting in the seats below me.
In the lingualized type of occlusion, contact of the lingual cusps of theuppers against the semianatomic teeth on the lowers will be seen in lateral, protrusive, and eccentric movements.
2010, Peter S. Ungar,Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page212:
These reentrant folds, especially those on the buccal side of theuppers and the lingual side of the lowers, are quickly isolated by wear into infundibula within lakes of dentin.
2012, Todd Debreceni,Special Make-up Effects for Stage & Screen:
Periodically check the bite with theuppers and lowers to ensure that your actor's mouth will close correctly.
2014, Jake Jacobson,Alaska Tales: Laughs and Surprises:
Considering the badly decayed condition of the Chief's other teeth, I recommended removal of what remained of theuppers, followed by a “full plate” after healing.
A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
1912,Dental Record:
Treatment was continued until November, 1909, when a retainer was placed in position in the lower, consisting of bands round the lower first molars and a wire passing lingually round all the teeth. Theupper was retained by means of a plate with wires wires passing behind the upper first molars and round in front of all the teeth.
1941,Cal - Volumes 4-6, page 6:
The lower (according to the patient) was perfect, but theupper was bad, and the dentist was going to make theupper again.
2010, David R. Avery, Ralph E. McDonald, Jeffrey A. Dean,McDonald and Avery Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent:
Theupper was retained with a Hawley bite plane; the lip bumper was continued for an additional 18 months.
An upper berth or bunk.
1926, United States. Supreme Court,United States Supreme Court Reports - Volume 59, page1423:
The Railroad Company further averred that it operated sleeping cars over its system of more than 7,000 miles of interstate roads, and that the Interstate Commerce Commission had prescribed rates for each of said sleeping car units on trains running to and from the state of Wisconsin. The rate fixed for theupper was 80 per cent. of the charge for the use of the lower; the price for the whole section beting the sum of the two rates.
2011, Walker Percy,The Moviegoer:
But trains have changed. Gone are theuppers and lowers, partitions and cranks, and the green velour; only the porter remains, the same man, I think, a black man with palms the color of shrimp and a neck swollen with dislike.
2011, Studs Terkel,Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression:
Twelve lowers and twelveuppers and three beds in the drawing rooms.
1914,Illinois Central Magazine - Volume 3, Issues 1-11, page91:
Of course I naturally I asked why, but all the satisfaction I got for the time being was that theupper was good enough for me, and that it was a pretty good place in which to sleep, anyway.
2016, Constance R. Pottenger,Drop Dead Casino - Ginger The First, page31:
Theuppers were reached by comfortably safe steps with handrails and slip proof coatings.
(Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
2005, Shingo Einoo,Genesis and Development of Tantra, page128:
The 'upper' is one of nine apertures through which consciousness can leave the body at death (utkrantih).
2005,Holding Yin, Embracing Yang:
When the Tao Te Ching says: “In thought, you can see the cavity,” it is referring to what the Triplex Unity describes as “When theupper is closed, we call it existence; when the lower is closed, we call it nothingness.”
It is said in Tibetan culture, in order to understand theupper, it is necessary to understand the lower first. Once, the lower is understood, theupper is just an introductory.
