Definition of "upside down" []

• So that the upper or right side is down: turned upside down. (adverb)
• In great disorder. (adverb)

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• "We rode the subway a few stops and found our way to Piazzale Loreto, where, in April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress had been hung upside down in front of a gas station."
• "Then she spotted a tiny windmill, a replica of the kind once common on pre-twentieth-century Earth, hanging upside down from the corridor ceiling."
• "Oars lifted as the boats pulled in on both sides of the dock, and the rowers glanced at him as they lifted their lightweight sculls from the water and flipped them upside down onto the waiting stands."