topsyturn
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topsyturn (third-person singular simple present topsyturns, present participle topsyturning, simple past and past participle topsyturned)
- (transitive) To turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.
- 1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 9-17, page 54:
- a Cockney couple who topsyturn a country estate
- 2017, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, volume 2, page 332:
- 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.