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What does one-upping mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of one-up
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Its fans form their own massive and hip clique, communicating and cross-pollinating and one-upping one another.
Maybe someday we'll start one-upping another in the job hunt by going to grad school.
They talked for hours, one-upping each other with their travel stories.
Hasselbeck, in his first playoff start, came close to one-upping Favre.
Many of the announcements had an undercurrent — one-upping Apple.
Around the dinner table tonight, the topic of weblog popularity came up, so we took turns one-upping each other about how little we care about being popular.

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