Located on a higher floor or level of a building. / (baseball, informal) Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.

Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level. / (informal) In the brain or mind. / (informal) In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.

An upper storey. / (slang, euphemistic) A woman's breasts.

(dated) upstairs

(slang, humorous) God.

(transitive, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, upstairs. / (cricket, of an umpire) To request a decision by the third umpire (traditionally by making a sign of a TV set with the hands)

Synonym of kick upstairs

present participle of kick upstairs

Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers.