Usually means: Fluctuations in success and failure.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. ups and downs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ups and downs: Merriam-Webster
  3. ups and downs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ups and downs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ups and downs: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ups and downs: Wordnik
  7. ups and downs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ups and downs: Wiktionary
  9. ups and downs: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ups and downs: Dictionary.com
  11. The Ups and Downs (album), Ups and Downs (band), Ups and Downs, Ups and downs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ups and downs: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ups and downs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ups and downs: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ups-and-downs: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ups and downs: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ups and downs: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. ups and downs: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ups and downs)

noun:  (idiomatic) Periods of positive and negative events, moods, or interactions; highs and lows.
noun:  Undulations.

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