(slang, idiomatic, vulgar, US) Tumbling upside down.
When the top step gave way, he went ass over teakettle back down to the bottom.
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(slang, US, idiomatic, vulgar) In complete disarray.
After all that hard work cleaning up, along comes one big storm and we're ass over teakettle again.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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