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▸ 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.
Similar:
head over heels,
hugger-mugger,
jumbled,
higgledy-piggledy,
untidy,
disorderly,
heels over head,
in great confusion,
counter,
atwist,
more...
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