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Meanings of upside-down in English

Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed.

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The deals often result in lower tax rates for the inverted company.
Reuters
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Other parts of the curve have already inverted, beginning late last year.
News.com.au
3
We hear, utterly anew, phrases hardly unknown today, just radically racially inverted.
The Guardian
4
The hive was inverted; in a few hours the glass was dry.
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
5
The others, however, showed either a normal or an incompletely inverted pattern.
Pubmed
Usage of upside-down in English
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The upside-down nature of the situation is striking, some trade experts say.
Reuters
2
I could see upside-down the state coach on the way to Westminster.
The Quiet American
3
I mean staring as opposed to reading because the paper was upside-down.
Priest
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He's wrong he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
Shatter Me
5
Everything is done and spoken upside-down in this country of the English.
The Eyes of Asia
6
The upside-down children are pulled through the school by a mechanical line.
Fresh
7
Eric, making a request of me: The world was really turned upside-down.
Dead to the world
8
Has he lost the map or is he merely reading it upside-down?
The Guardian
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It was hard to read his expression in the snowy, upside-down image.
Wastelands
10
Mentions the upside-down Maple leaf flag incident at the game in Atlanta.
The new yorker
11
To read one, the reader must flip their copy back-to-front and upside-down.
The Irish Times
12
Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?
The voyage of the dawn treader
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That made us think of another sensational inverview with another upside-down man.
The new yorker
14
Fallen party tables, upside-down lounge chairs, torn costumes, and other broken things.
World After
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There are very few down facing holds, you're moving sideways, and upside-down.
Climbing Magazine
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Having fallen upside-down, its base was on top at the uppermost end.
Death angel