The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upside-down \Up"side-down`\, a. having the part normally pointed upward pointed downward; inverted.
WordNet
adj. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" [syn: inverted]
Usage examples of "upside-down".
In making this upside-down comparison, in which he figures himself as the king of the palace, Antinous forgets that Peirithous went to Hades alive but did not return.
Then she scurried to the top again, stood on her hands again and did a series of upside-down contortions, backbends, center splits, when she spread her legs horizontally from side to side, and stride splits, when she spread them fore and aft.
In her dream one of those odd upside-down dreams which plagued her, especially when Ned was away Burgo Smyth was an actor, and he was receiving some kind of award.
Death upside-down, and below it were the King of Swords in Chokmah and the Knight of Wands in Binah.
Muffins, johnnycake, rhubarb upside-down cake, jelly-rolls, pies, blueberry grunt, yards of shortbread, hundreds of tea biscuits.
Randronoth of Lapan and her own porter murdered and her house turned upside-down.
Its trumpet-shaped waxy flowers were like upside-down Easter lilies, opening by moonlight to exude their heavy, sensual aroma.
Lenny placed the two mugs upside-down on an even piece of ground while I nuzzled him for more sweets.
His cloak had been taken away from him, and without it he looked curiously naked: a robot with a thorax like an upside-down bottle, with narrow pipelike arms tied at the wrists behind his back and spindly legs thrust out before him, the broken one at an odd angle, its knee ruined.
They stood watch and watch at the web controls, and came back to their upside-down bunkroom and ate sleep.
Various items were found in his room, including a funeral register upon which he had drawn a pentagram and upside-down crosses and had copied spells.
I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at sloths in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of my scientific probing.
Over on the other side I could see upside-down Antie, still waiting for her master.
Even the Chinese antipodists seemed to realize the importance of this occasion, and did upside-down exploits more impossible-seeming than any they had ever done before.
He had just turned it upside-down to see whether it looked better that way when, with a loud crack , Fred and George Apparated at the foot of his bed.