(idiomatic, British, vulgar) Tumbling upside down; head over heels; backwards.
1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Volume1, Luke 16,[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16036.0001.001]
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