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topsyturn

topsyturn verb: to turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.

Verb

topsyturn (third-person singular simple present topsyturns, present participle topsyturning, simple past and past participle topsyturned)

  1. (transitive) To turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.
    • a Cockney couple who topsyturn a country estate1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 9-17, page 54
    • Since then I'd grown into my own, and this fist-chucking malcontent would topsyturn the whole enterprise if I let him, and thereby dawned my epiphany.2017, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, volume 2, page 332

Forms of topsyturn

third-person singular presenttopsyturns
present participletopsyturning
past participletopsyturned
pasttopsyturned

Questions about topsyturn

What does topsyturn mean?
Topsyturn means to turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.
What part of speech is topsyturn?
Topsyturn is a verb.
What is the past tense of topsyturn?
The past tense of topsyturn is topsyturned.

Words near topsyturn in the dictionary

  1. topsy-turvydom
  2. topsy-turvyed
  3. topsy-turvying
  4. topsy-turvyness
  5. topsy-turvys
  6. topsyturn
  7. topsyturned
  8. topsyturning
  9. topsyturns
  10. topsyturvily
  11. topsyturviness

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