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Upper Class
The hereditary gentry depicted by P. G. Wodehouse in a bygone age; aristocratic guardians of the gracious life, largely descended from nineteenth-century robber barons, profiteers, fur traders or dry-goods merchants. |
Upper Middle Class
An ambitious social caste recognized by the tendency of its members to adorn their homes with museum reproductions, their bodies with designer labels and their stomachs with ulcers. |
Upward Mobility
An increasingly arduous struggle to exceed the socio-economic status of one's parents, or, failing that, to acquire a taste for bottled mineral water and radicchio. |
Urban Clearway
A clogged artery that connects suburbia with the real world, enabling its mild-mannered residents to shout invigorating oaths, use colourful hand gestures and run their neighbours off the road in preparation for another day at the office. |
Urban Renewal
The replacement of old inner-city slums with newer, uglier ones. |
Urinal
The one place where all men are peers. |
