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noun

• something sold to a customer that they hadn't originally planned to buy.

  Last edited on Oct 03 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

verb

• to sell something additional that a customer hadn't originally planned to buy.

  Last edited on Oct 03 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

adjective

• in trouble. Possibly a shortened version of "up shit creek without a paddle".

  Last edited on Dec 07 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

adverb

• in trouble.

  Last edited on Feb 19 2018. Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 05 2003.

• having suddenly realized that one is in a dangerously untenable, probably unrecoverable, situation: "screwed"; "fucked". The term carries an implication of finality.

  Looks like my off-the-wall strategy has me up shit creek without a paddle. I'm screwed!

  Last edited on Feb 19 2018. Submitted by Bill V. from Modesto, CA, USA on Feb 19 2018.

notes

• See also up a creek without a paddle, up shit creek.

  Last edited on Apr 26 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 19 2010.

verb - transitive

• to increase a person's skill level.

                                                                      
  
  Citation from Coursera advertisement censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on May 05 2019. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 05 2019.

noun - uncountable

• in the head, brain.

  He doesn't have a lot going on upstairs.

  Last edited on Oct 19 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.

• a metaphorical (or often actual) place where higher management works.

  I'm going to have to run this upstairs before we can sign the deal.

  Last edited on Oct 19 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 19 2010.

verb - intransitive

• to minimize or eliminate connections with one's current location of residence.

                                                                                                                                                
  
  Citation from "The virtual curmudgeon", The Economist, Sep 2 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Jul 21 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 05 2010.

• to decamp.

  Last edited on Jul 21 2012. Submitted by Simon Barrett from London, Greater London, UK on Mar 06 2012.

adjective

• in an excessive amount, usually too much. Also up the butt.

  I've got e-mail up the ass!

  • See more words with the same meaning: many, much, lots.

  Last edited on Jan 13 1998. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.

adjective

• in trouble. A New Zealand expression. From the Puhoi river, north of Auckland. Originally the expression was "Up the Puhoi without a paddle". Similar to being "up shit creek without a paddle."
  
  http://erwin.bernhardt.net.nz/oceania/newzealandfacts.html

  Last edited on Dec 15 2013. Submitted by Dick Wright-Upham from Wellington, New Zealand on Dec 02 2010.