English-French translations for in reverse

• à l’envers
  Ne jouons pas les Robins des Bois à l’envers. Let us not play Robin Hood in reverse.
  Elle est un peu comme un Robin des Bois à l’envers, prenant aux pauvres pour donner aux riches. It is Robin Hood in reverse, with the EU taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
• sens dessus dessous

Definition of in reverse

• Of a motion, sequence, etc.: backwards; reversed
• Of a motor car: in reverse gear

Examples

• The Satanic message can be unmasked by playing the song in reverse
• When the officer approached the car, the driver put it in reverse and drove away

Related words

• reverse vending machine
• reverse engineering
• reverse discrimination
• reverse publishing
• reverse teaching
• reverse innovation
• reverse-engineer
• reverse-engineering
• reversewing cropper