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right-side-up

right-side-up is the alternative form of right side up.

Meaning of right side up

Adverb

right side up (not comparable)

  1. In correct position with the top at the top; not upside down or inverted.
    • Stood right-side-up and free of the undergarment from Hell, she was a rather attractive brunette in her early or middle thirties.1991 January, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, page 67

Questions about right-side-up

What is right-side-up the alternative form of?
Right-side-up is the alternative form of right side up.

Words near right-side-up in the dictionary

  1. right-shore
  2. right-shored
  3. right-shores
  4. right-shoring
  5. right-side-out
  6. right-side-up
  7. right-size
  8. right-sized
  9. right-sizes
  10. right-sizing
  11. right-thinking

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