UPSIDE-DOWN


Meaning of UPSIDE-DOWN in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ adjective

Etymology: upside down

1. : having the upper and the lower parts reversed in position : inverted

upside-down letters

2. : marked by confusion ; especially : marked by an inversion of the usual or the reasonable

that upside-down snobbery of the café chantant — Edmund Wilson

a fine case of upside-down logic — Janet Flanner

• upside-down·ness noun

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