topsyturn

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verb

To turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person topsyturns · participle present topsyturning · participle past topsyturned · past topsyturned

  1. transitiveTo turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.

    a Cockney couple who topsyturn a country estate

    1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 9-17, page 54
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    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
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