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turn-up

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes and Fashion
turn-up [countable] British English
1DC the bottom of a trouser leg that is folded up for decoration or to make it shorter [= cuff American English]
2

a turn-up for the book(s)

informal an unexpected and surprising event:
Fancy you being in New York too. What a turn-up for the books!
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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