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upstart (n.)
1550s, "one newly risen in importance or rank, a parvenu," also
start-up
, from
up
+
start
(v.) in the sense of "jump, spring, rise." Cf. the archaic verb
upstart
"to spring to one's feet," attested from c.1300.