The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PARVENU
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More clues leading to the result PARVENU
- Usual meeting place not quite enough for social climber
- Arriviste from north in disorderly rave-up
- Upstart after a year runs meeting-place briefly
- Newcomer‘s music upset audience finally leaving concert hall, say
- Nouveau riche location second to be struck off, substandard
- Social climber in usual place, snubbed
- Drug dropped in normal place for someone not yet accepted
- Average goddess curtailed by new arrival
- PARVENU
- Vulgarian charge overturned prior to brief rendezvous
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The straight part
We know that "Upstart" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case upstart = parvenu.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PARVENU mean?
PARVENU noun- A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, rights, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
- Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu.