upper crust
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The social elite, the highest social class.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upper, crust. The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.
adj
Example Sentences
- "I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point."
- "Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class."
- "“You ever see the movie Spotlight?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”"
- "She went to get her tarts . . . but some one had stolen all the fruit out of them by lifting up the upper crust."