in or into a position in which the top of sth is where the bottom is normally found and the bottom is where the top is normally found:
The canoe floated upside down on the lake. * Turn the cake upside down and cover it with cream.
OPPRIGHTSIDEUP
upside down adjective [notusuallybeforenoun]:
The painting looks like it's upside down to me.
IDIOMS
turn sth upside down
1 to make a place untidy when looking for sth:
The police turned the whole house upside down looking for clues.
2 to cause large changes and confusion in a person's life:
His sudden death turned her world upside down.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of upside down come from?
This entry for upside down is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is upside down a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, upside down is tagged as adverb.
Does upside down appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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