topsy-turvy

topsy-turvy
adv
1. upside down, wrong side up bottom side up, bottom up; head over heels.
2. in reverse, backwards, Sl. ass-backwards, Sl. arsy-varsy.
3. helter-skelter, pell-mell, hurry-scurry, harum-scarum; higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger. Inf. willy-nilly, Inf. every which way; in confusion, in disorder, in disarray, in a jumble, in a tumble, in a muddle, in a mess, all over the place; here, there, and everywhere.
adj
4. reverse, inverted, transposed, turned around, wrong-way around, back-to-front.
5. confused, chaotic, muddled, jumbled; disorderly, disordered, disarranged, deranged; unorganized, disorganized.
n
6. inversion, reversion, reversal, transposition.
7. confusion, disorder, chaos, turmoil, moil, pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom.

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