topsy-turvy
adjective, adverb
informal us
/ˌtɑːp.siˈtɝː.vi/ uk
/ˌtɒp.siˈtɜː.vi/Synonyms
Meaning of topsy-turvy in English
(Definition of topsy-turvy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
topsy-turvy | Intermediate English
topsy-turvy
adjective
infml us
/ˈtɑp·siˈtɜr·vi/Examples of topsy-turvy
topsy-turvy
Of course, the same could be same for almost every team that has ascended to the top spot in this topsy-turvy season.
From ESPN
Albinos are an expensive commodity -- in a perverse topsy-turvy turning of the capitalist system.
From Huffington Post
The world we exist in often seems like a topsy-turvy, upside-down reality.
From Huffington Post
It's the latest saga in a topsy-turvy year for local grape farming.
From Buffalo News
But when things go topsy-turvy, fast-growing, short-living, mass-reproducing species gain the upper hand.
From Ars Technica
But we live in a world that is topsy-turvy.
From Washington Post
Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of multinational corporate bookkeeping.
From Los Angeles Times
He exudes confidence, which is a comfort when the world is topsy-turvy.
From NOLA.com
In a demand constrained economy like the one we have today and will have for several years, economics is turned topsy-turvy.
From TIME
What below look like topsy-turvy benches turn out to be slivers of those striated concrete panels, as if fractured and tossed by an earthquake.
From Dallas Morning News
It may be a topsy-turvy take on the idea of hate, but for many self-confident people, it's a useful one.
From NPR
Politics is kids' stuff, and in today's topsy-turvy world of perpetual pseudo-youth, only adults can really be trusted with kids' stuff, because they know not to take it too seriously.
From Huffington Post
We need these topsy-turvy moments.
From NPR
Today the web is crawling with women trying to make sense of their topsy-turvy lives as parents by encapsulating that process of analysis in some kind of narrative form.
From TIME
We present here two examples of topsy-turvy hearts detected by fetal echocardiography, and describe the postnatal consequences of the peculiar anomaly.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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karman çorman, karmakarışık, arap saçına dönmüş…
sens dessus dessous…
ondersteboven…
kacau-balau…
พลิกเอาด้านบนลงล่าง…
lật ngược…
pogmatwany, postawiony na głowie, (wywrócony) do góry nogami…
upp och ner, huller om buller…
tunggang-terbalik…
drunter und drüber…
(перевернутий) догори дном, шкереберть…
беспорядочный, хаотичный…
