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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upper crust
noun
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▪ In fact there were complaints from upper crust visitors about the din, so the cells fell into disuse.
▪ In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could.
▪ Only society's upper crust would have traveled in the car, known as the limousine of its day.
▪ The upper crust does not ride public transportation.
▪ Those disgraceful students were males from the upper crust.
Wiktionary
upper crust

n. 1 (&lit upper crust English) The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating. 2 (context idiomatic informal usually with ''the'' English) The social elite, the highest social class.

WordNet
upper crust

n. the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy [syn: upper class]

Wikipedia
Upper Crust (restaurant chain)

Upper Crust is an international chain of baguette restaurants concentrated along commuter routes. The outlets are commonplace in stations and terminals. Branches are also present in some universities in the UK, including University College London. There are also branches at the central railway station in Oslo and Elkjøp Megastore Lørenskog, Norway. Since September 2008, there are also three units in Stockholm, Sweden – two at the central railway station and one at the nearby bus terminal, Cityterminalen.There is also one opening in Gothenburg Centralstationen/Nils Ericsson terminalen railway and busterminal. The company has started to expand into shopping centres, with a new store at Bridgend Designer Outlet, South Wales. There are also branches on airports, including Cairo Airport, Tromsø Airport, Trondheim Værnes Airport, Oslo Airport Gardermoen, George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Gran Canaria Airport. They were located in Australia too in the past, at places such as Circular Quay.

Upper crust

Upper crust may refer to:

  • Upper Crust Pizzeria, a pizza chain in Boston
  • Upper Crust (restaurant chain), a chain of European baguette (sandwich) restaurants
  • The Upper Crust (rock band), a Boston-based hard rock band
  • Crust (geology), the earth's (or another body's) geological solid outer shell. The upper crust is the planet's surface.
  • The upper class in modern societies; the social class composed of the wealthiest members of society, who also wield the greatest political power.
  • The Upper Crust, a 1917 American film.

Usage examples of "upper crust".

Where it would bring us out upon the upper crust I could not even conjecture.

We think the machines occupy the upper crust, nothing below, and they are very efficient.

In his private laboratory, secreted inside an ignored coal vein in the upper crust, old Rogo had taught the youths many interesting principles, had shown them some of his failed prototypes.

A few of the upper crust of the vampires support his way of thinking.

Good thing no one knows, or the whole family would be disgraced in Vanbert's upper crust.

TThat way he'd join the upper crust in chokey and be treated like.

They used knives they had brought with them to slice off for the Sovereign and his family the choice upper crust of rolls and breads.

He catered, word spread fast, to only the very upper flakes of the upper crust.