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Upside-down   /ˈəpsˈaɪd-daʊn/   Listen
Upside-down

adjective
1.
Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed.  Synonym: inverted.  "An upside-down cake"



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"Upside-down" Quotes from Famous Books



... photographing Sadie, but the tennis racket remained an enigma. Oarsman and passenger appeared to have no conversation whatever—not once was either seen or heard to address a remark to the other; and they looked as placid as their own upside-down reflections in one of the still pools they slowly floated over. They were sixteen, and had been "engaged" ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington

... developed on the same principle. The earlier forms seem to have lived in a part of the ocean where silica was scarce, and they absorbed and built their protective frames of lime. In the simpler types the frame is not unlike a wide-necked bottle, turned upside-down. In later forms it takes the shape of a spirally coiled series of chambers, sometimes amounting to several thousand. These wonderful little houses are not difficult to understand. The original tiny animal covers itself with ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe



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