slalom vs topsy-turvy

slalom

verb
  • To move in a slalom-like manner. 

  • To race in a slalom. 

noun
  • A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom. 

  • A course used for the sport of slalom. 

  • The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively) 

  • Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis. 

topsy-turvy

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

  • To throw into chaos or disorder; to upset. 

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

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

adj
  • Chaotic; disorderly. 

  • Backwards or upside down. 

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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