Usually means: Upside down, chaotic, and disordered.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word topsy-turvy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. topsy-turvy: Merriam-Webster
  2. topsy-turvy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. topsy-turvy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. topsy-turvy, topsy-turvy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. topsy-turvy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Topsy-Turvy, topsy-turvy: Wordnik
  7. topsy-turvy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. topsy-turvy: Wiktionary
  9. topsy-turvy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. topsy-turvy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. topsy-turvy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. topsy-turvy: Dictionary.com
  13. topsy-turvy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. topsy-turvy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Topsy-Turvy, Topsy-turvy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Topsy-turvy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. topsy-turvy: Rhymezone
  18. Topsy-turvy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. topsy-turvy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Topsy-turvy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. topsy-turvy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. topsy-turvy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Topsy-turvy: The Word Detective
  24. topsy-turvy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Topsy-turvy: World Wide Words
  26. topsy-turvy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. topsy-turvy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. topsy-turvy: A Word A Day
  2. topsy-turvy: Idioms

(Note: See topsy-turvily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset.
adverb:  (figurative) Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically.
adjective:  Backwards or upside down.
adjective:  (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.
noun:  (countable, figurative) A situation where the natural order of things has been upset.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) Chaos, confusion, disorder.
verb:  (transitive) To turn topsy-turvy or upside down; to invert.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To throw into chaos or disorder; to upset.

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