UPTOWN • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Uptown

... in explanation. "If O'Gavin doesn't hurry up we'll be late for an engagement we've got uptown. I'm ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... Sixteenth are just built to suit the people they have to deal with. They don't go in for literary business much downtown, but these men are all real gents, and that's what the people want—even the poorest tenement dwellers. As you go farther uptown you find a rather different kind of district leader. There's Victor Dowling who was until lately the leader of the Twenty-fourth. He's a lulu. He knows the Latin grammar backward. What's strange, he's a sensible young fellow, too. ...

— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt