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upside down adverb [ ˌʌpsʌɪ(d) ˈdaʊn ]

• with the upper part where the lower part should be; in or into an inverted position.
• "the car rolled and landed upside down"
Similar: upturned, upended, bottom up, wrong side up, head over heels, inverted, reversed, overturned, capsized, upset, flipped,
Opposite: upright, the right way up,

upside down adjective

• placed with the upper part where the lower part should be; inverted.
• "an upside-down canoe"
Origin: Middle English: originally up so down, perhaps in the sense ‘up as if down’.


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