inverts

Noun

invert (plural inverts)

1. An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
2. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
3. The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
4. An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
5. A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
6. (obsolete) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
   • We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is...1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202

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