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  • adjective having the part normally pointed upward pointed downward; inverted.

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  • adjective being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed

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Examples

  • A Miami judge said to me "I know who you are - you're that woman who thinks she can stop a foreclosure because the notary signed her name upside-down."

    Richard Zombeck: MASS Registry of Deeds: A Household Name in Foreclosure Households Richard Zombeck 2011

  • A Miami judge said to me "I know who you are - you're that woman who thinks she can stop a foreclosure because the notary signed her name upside-down."

    Richard Zombeck: MASS Registry of Deeds: A Household Name in Foreclosure Households Richard Zombeck 2011

  • It easily can become a sacred hurricane that turns everything upside-down and inside-out.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Dr. Patch Adams, the medical doctor who dresses and acts like a clown, would find a homecoming in the Kalahari for his wild and crazy antics, particularly those that turn everything upside-down with outrageous tomfoolery.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • This is when the universe was turned upside-down, not by God but by trickster.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • The Bushmen suggest that we have turned the basic truths of living upside-down and that is why practically everything in our lives, from the global economy to our homes, schools, politics, and ecology, is in such a topsy-turvy mess.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • In the film, their life is turned upside-down when a Coca-Cola bottle is thrown out the window of a light airplane flying over the Kalahari Desert.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • They can leap over the pews in a church, like some parishioners have done, or they can be filled with enough n|om to stand upside-down in a fire.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • You take a seat on an upside-down stack of plastic paint buckets.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • I have on black leather pants, a black T-shirt, a black punk bracelet, a silver bracelet and a rosary necklace with an upside-down cross.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

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    July 16, 2008

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    July 16, 2008

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    July 16, 2008

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    July 16, 2008

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    July 16, 2008

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    July 17, 2008

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    July 17, 2008

  • That Mercator dude has a lot to answer for.

    Lambs ..... in ..... Space. You'd think they would have evolved Velcro feet by now.

    Though rumor has it that all the space-livestock are due to return at Uluru on Dec 21, 2012. Be there, aloha!

    July 17, 2008

  • Close Encounters Of The Herd Kind.

    July 17, 2008

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    July 17, 2008

  • This is just a different way to spell downside-up.

    July 18, 2008

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    July 18, 2008

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    July 22, 2008