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/ˈəpsˈaɪd daʊn/ Listen

noun

Upside n.

The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

The benefits; the positive features; said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects.

To be upsides with, to be even with. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

Upside down. With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. "These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also."

adverb

Upside down adv. In such a manner that the part normally pointed upward is pointed downward; same as upsidown and upsodown.

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"Upside down" Quotes from Famous Books

... out of town. This chap said he was going that way, and I had made up my mind to find a certain friend of mine—a chap named Hoover. The second day out I discovered that this queer man was the one who'd been turning Denver upside down for ten days, healing the halt and the blind. He was running away because he liked ...

— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson

... matter with you, my child?" I said, and drew a chair near hers. She was half reclining, with a book lying upside down on her knee. ...

— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1 • George MacDonald

... woman, too, was forged at Birmingham, And mounted all in batteries, each on a separate cam; And when one showed, in love or war or politics or fever, A sign of maladjustment, why you just pulled on his lever, And upside down and inside out and front side back he stood; And the Inspector saw which one was evil, which ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... High among these I place this delight of weeding out here alone by the garrulous water, under the silence of the high wood, broken by incongruous sounds of birds. And take my life all through, look at it fore and back, and upside down,—though I would very fain change myself—I would not change my circumstances, unless it were to bring you here. And yet God knows perhaps this intercourse of writing serves as well; and I wonder, were you here indeed, would I commune so continually ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... carefully upside down, and read—or rather pretended to read—the name and address. Eradicate knew well enough where Mary lived, for this was not the first time he had gone there with messages from his ...

— Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel - or, The Hidden City of the Andes • Victor Appleton

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