What is "uppers"

Usage examples of "uppers".

Surely it was those Uppers who stomped just one time too many with their patronizing condescension!

We Lowers are, as you have accused often, of a physical nature, and could teach you Uppers a thing or two about the many ways of using one’s body as a weapon.

And do you know what else, since Mark-Kan is one of our men, the Uppers will think we were all in the plot!

The lower set of arms tended to be more muscular than the uppers in both males and females, power-grippers, and thus appeared falsely short by comparison to the uppers: bow-legged, if he squinted them to a blur.

The two women took the uppers, leaving Jamie and Connors to slide into the lowers like a pair of sewer workers crawling into a tunnel.