inside-out vs topsy-turvy

inside-out

adj
  • With the inner and outer surfaces reversed. 

  • Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand. 

topsy-turvy

adj
  • Backwards or upside down. 

  • Chaotic; disorderly. 

adv
  • Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset. 

  • Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically. 

verb
  • To turn topsy-turvy or upside down; to invert. 

  • To throw into chaos or disorder; to upset. 

noun
  • An act of turning something backwards or upside down, or the situation that something is in after this has happened. 

  • A situation where the natural order of things has been upset. 

  • Chaos, confusion, disorder. 

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