- UPRIGHT
- Go upright; a word used by shoemakers, taylors
and their servants, when any money is given to
make them drink, and signifies, Bring it all out in liquor,
though the donor intended less, and expects change, or
some of his money, to be returned. Three-penny upright.
See THREEPENNY UPRIGHT
The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.