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NOUN:
A person of humble origin who attains sudden wealth, power, or importance, especially one made immodest or presumptuous by the change; a parvenu.
ADJECTIVE:
  1. Suddenly raised to a position of consequence.
  2. Self-important; presumptuous.
intr.v.
up·start·ed, up·start·ing, up·starts (p-stärt)
To spring or start up suddenly.



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