How to pronounce “topsy-turvy”

Meaning

• [Adverb]
• Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset.
• (figurative) Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically.
• [Adjective]
• Backwards or upside down.
• (figurative) Chaotic; disorderly.
• [Noun]
• (countable) An act of turning something backwards or upside down, or the situation that something is in after this has happened.
• (countable, figurative) A situation where the natural order of things has been upset.
• (uncountable, figurative) Chaos, confusion, disorder.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To turn topsy-turvy or upside down; to invert.
• (transitive, figurative) To throw into chaos or disorder; to upset.

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