Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. 1 (alternative spelling of turn up English) 2 Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter. 3 (context dated English) A fight.
Usage examples of "turn-up".
Lurking behind the canvases is his suit-a relic from days when well-paid lectureships were easily available, the fashion was for narrow lapels and no turn-ups, and he had a tax rebate to spend.
There is also a most extensive assortment of tent and turn-up bedsteads, made of stained wood, and innumerable specimens of that base imposition on society - a sofa bedstead.
The Board of Trade tinkers with the problem by, for example, suppressing the turn-ups of trouser ends, but is already contemplating putting everyone into battledress.
He was proud of that suit even though within months of buying it, lapels became wider and turn-ups came back into fashion.
Ted found that the trousers tried to cling together at the turn-ups when he walked.
The turn-ups filled with fluff which wadded into felt, but he couldn’t bend to clean them out with his finger.
He wore grey flannel trousers whose turn-ups flopped over well-worn leather slippers.
The trussed Englishman departed for Argostoli at dawn, the turn-ups of his trousers half way up his pink calves and the jacket unfastenable, bearing his equipment in a hessian sack, also provided by the doctor, who would not let him depart without imparting some sound advice: `Look, OK?