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Up and down Common

Up and down has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adverb

Definitions
Adjective
1

Vertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut.

Adverb
1

moving backward and forward along a given course

"he walked up and down the locker room"

"all up and down the Eastern seaboard"

2

alternately upward and downward

"he eyed him up and down"

3

upward and downward, alternately

Example Sentences
"he walked up and down the locker room" adverb
"all up and down the Eastern seaboard" adverb
"he eyed him up and down" adverb
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Rhyming Words
own sown town lown mown gown rown down adown known grown frown shown brown sdown coown blown clown crown drown
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