upside down

adverb

Definition

› turned so that the part that is usually at the top is now at the bottom: One of the pictures had been hung upside down. Turn the jar upside down and shake it.

(Definition of upside down adverb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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