Usually means: Movement vertically, ascending and descending.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word up and down:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. up-and-down, up and_down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. up and_down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. up-and-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. up-and-down, up-and-down, up and_down: Collins English Dictionary
  5. up and_down: Vocabulary.com
  6. up-and-down, up and_down: Wordnik
  7. up-and-down, up and_down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. up and_down: Wiktionary
  9. up-and-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. up-and-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. up-and-down, up and_down: Dictionary.com
  12. 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
  13. up and_down: Rhymezone
  14. up and_down: Free Dictionary
  15. up and_down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. up-and-down, up and_down: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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