What does upstick mean?

upstick

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"He was, however, not going to upstick from his firm base at Lang Kartse in a hurry."
"When the Italians did withdraw from Kassala (which they did very ably) we were facing the wrong way. We had to upstick and get after them as hard as our administrative arrangements would allow; […]"

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