Usually means: Movement vertically, ascending and descending.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word up and down:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. up and down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. up-and-down, up and down: Merriam-Webster
  3. up and down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. up-and-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. up-and-down, up-and-down, up and down: Collins English Dictionary
  6. up and down: Vocabulary.com
  7. up-and-down, up and down: Wordnik
  8. up-and-down, up and down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. up and down: Wiktionary
  10. up-and-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. up-and-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. up-and-down, up and down: Dictionary.com
  13. Up and Down (Opus album), Up and Down (She Wants Revenge EP), Up and Down (disambiguation), Up and Down (song), Up and Down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. up and down: Rhymezone
  15. up and down: FreeDictionary.org
  16. up and down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. up-and-down, up and down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. up and down: Urban Dictionary
  2. Up-and-down: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. up and down: Golfer's Dictionary
  2. Up and down: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Up and Down, Up and Down: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (up and down)

adverb:  upward and downward, alternately.
adverb:  (idiomatic) alternately forwards and backwards along a path
adverb:  (idiomatic) staunchly, unwaveringly, obstinately
adverb:  In various places, e.g. in a country.
adjective:  (nautical) Vertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut.
adjective:  (figurative) plain; downright
adjective:  (Philippines, architecture, of a building) having two stories

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