手を上げる: to raise one's hand or hands; to give up; to strike someone, or to threaten to do so; (idiomatic) to improve, to raise one's level of skill or competence; to return one's hands to normal posture, after prostrating oneself

お手上げ: throwing up one's hands: giving up, quitting

deep-fried food

a real estate dealer who buys small parcels of land to consolidate and resell, especially an unscrupulous or coercive dealer; a landshark

the practice of filling low-lying land, building embankments / the practice of buying small parcels of land to consolidate and resell / rigging the price of land for sale

to raise the ground level, to fill low areas of land

Short for 揚羽蝶 (agehachō, “swallowtail”) (butterfly)

揚羽: Short for 揚羽蝶 (agehachō, “swallowtail”) (butterfly)

imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of 上げる (ageru) [ichidan]

Kyūjitai form of 挙