up-and-down

[ uhp-uh n-doun ]

/ ˈʌp ənˈdaʊn /

moving alternately up and down: the up-and-down swing of levers; an up-and-down tune.

having an uneven surface: up-and-down countryside.

changeable: up-and-down luck.

perpendicular or nearly so: a straight up-and-down hillside.

Origin of up-and-down

First recorded in 1610–20

up-and-down·ness, noun

Did you share his feelings about the up-and-down fourth season of the show?

Alison Brie on ‘Community’s’ New Beginning, Dan Harmon’s Return, Nicolas Cage, and More |Marlow Stern |January 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
So you might have assumed that it would have been a straight “up-and-down” clean vote for McCain-Palin and repair to the bar.

Electing a Punch Line |Christopher Buckley |October 20, 2008 |DAILY BEAST
The up-and-down sight is adjusted in accordance therewith and usually the second, or at most the third, shot gets the exact range.

The Panama Canal |Frederic Jennings Haskin
The head and tail should swing freely, and the back (E) act as a stop in their up-and-down motion.

Educational Toys |Louis C. Petersen

Up-and-down men are skase, but the horizontal are less skaser.

Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings |Henry Wheeler Shaw
Standing upon it with hind feet, he reached down with both fore paws and went through an up-and-down motion like a washerwoman.

The Grizzly |Enos A. Mills
Don't all your womankind write that sort of up-and-down bristly hand, more like a prickly-pear fence than a Christian's writin'?

One Of Them |Charles James Lever

up-and-down

moving, executed, or formed alternately upwards and downwards

mainly US very steep; vertical

backwards and forwards (along)