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upside down

adv
/ˌʌpsaɪd ˈdaʊn/

Etymology

From Middle English up sid doun, an alteration of earlier upsadowne, upsedowne, up-so-doun (“upside down”), equivalent to up + so + down, literally “up as down”.

  1. derived from up sid doun

Definitions

  1. Inverted, so that the top is now at the bottom.

    • The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger.
    • His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
    • For, suddenly, I saw you there / And through foggy London town / The sun was shining upside down!

  2. In great disorder.

    • The thief had turned the room upside down.
    • Peaſe and beanes are as danke here as a dog and that is the next way to giue poore iades the bots: this houſe is turned vpſide downe ſince Robin Oſtler died.

  3. Inverted

    Inverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom.

    • The pattern resembled an upside down letter W.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Owing more money for something than it is worth

      Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity.

      • He's upside down on his mortgage.

    2. Australian.

    3. Alternative letter-case form of Upside Down.

      • It is in the upside down where we can find many opportunities to grow and learn.
      • it asks courts to step into the reality educators face: the reality of teaching in the upside down.

    4. A dark and horrifying reality where the rules are different

      • This Upside Down economy was the product, Hansen said, of a shriveling population, the closing of the frontier and the maturing of industries.
      • It is in the upside down where we can find many opportunities to grow and learn.
      • it asks courts to step into the reality educators face: the reality of teaching in the upside down.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA