Adjective : the up-and-down swing of levers; an up-and-down tune. ,up-and-down countryside. ,up-and-down luck. ,a straight up-and-down hillside.    From Dictionary.com. 

An up-and-down movement suggests something standing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Success] Reference

It was a two-man pump and was worked by an up-and-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

We've got an up - close look at their up-and-down job.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2004] Reference

HAMMER: Well, it ` s been an up-and-down relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007] Reference

You've had an up-and-down time with the press, haven't you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2001] Reference

None of these old back-breaking, up-and-down dashers for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

After some gains yesterday, kind of an up-and-down week, Ali.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2008] Reference

We will have the latest on his up-and-down race for reelection.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2006] Reference

And he made several miles of up-and-down progress over this rough plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

He had not come across so many, in his up-and-down life, that they had become cheapened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

(The finger motion is continued, and to it is added an up-and-down shaking of one hand.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

The up-and-down roller coaster that is the housing market, it is taking yet another turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2009] Reference

You can affirm a statement by an up-and-down movement of your hand or by a nod of your head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Success] Reference

The legal case of protecting the rights of Elian Gonzalez has been a long and up-and-down process.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Eig: 'Elian Has Not Had His Day in Court' - March 21, 2000] Reference

On Wall Street today, an up-and-down day for stock prices, ending once again in negative territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2009] Reference

COLLINS. S.ill to come this morning, it's been an up-and-down start for the U.S. Olympic team in Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2004] Reference

And he did it with a unique victory salute; an up-and-down slicing gesture with his finger over his chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos Barredo finally scores big at the Vuelta a Espana] Reference

GINSBERG: Well, every justice, every person who is nominated for office, deserves a fair up-and-down vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2005] Reference

Let's talk a little bit about what's going on, because we're going to watch the up-and-down roll call vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2009] Reference

We live in a crazy, mixed-up, fun loving, rich-and-poor, up-and-down place, and we are immensely proud of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jann Turner: My Normal, Crazy, Mixed-Up Country -- South Africa] Reference

It comes with only one transmission: a six-speed manual with a heavy-duty clutch for raucous up-and-down shifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: BMW M Roadster] Reference

She wasn ` t involved in some up-and-down, tormented, heated, tortuous relationship where someone was after her.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2007] Reference

This up-and-down play of the emotions was not what he had read of as the result of wine on an unaccustomed drinker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

After that, it's really been an up-and-down battle for Barbaro, not just the right back leg, but also the left leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007] Reference

One thinks of a powerful piston, which, through, human, steam, or water power, is set in a moving up-and-down motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference

Even in the up-and-down world of real estate, this pitch may sound a little funny: "Affordable housing for the affluent.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shrinking Second Home] Reference

Instead of a simple up-and-down vote, the Democrats required a 2/3 vote to force Republicans out of adding any amendments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danielle Parker: Mad Men: A Congress Out of Control] Reference

Elvira has lost the little up-and-down worry wrinkle between her eyes -- the only one she had; she looks about twenty-two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

As my tenure as president draws to a close, I have had, as you might imagine, an up-and-down relationship with Senator Dole.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: President Clinton Speaks at World War II Memorial Ground Breaking - November 11, 2000] Reference

We're trying to make sense of this up-and-down economy with Alex Blumberg and Jacob Goldstein, part of NPR's Planet Money team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Money Explains Latest Economic Numbers] Reference

Dave Brailsford's team have had an up-and-down Tour in more ways than one, but remain hopeful of achieving their lofty ambitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Team Sky still in Tour de France's foothills but learning lessons for climb ahead] Reference

The dictations are meant to imitate human inflections, though their up-and-down swings don't yet match those of a natural voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft Mines Web to Build Language-Learning Tool] Reference

The remaining shots were fired by working the hammers in the same way, and the actions caused an up-and-down movement of the guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

Also, unlike conventional TV sets, they are typically bunched together, with multiple screens creating a giant wall or hung up-and-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billboards That Can See You] Reference

BLITZER: But don't you think this man deserves a fair chance to make his case during confirmation hearings and to get an up-and-down vote?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2005] Reference

(In contrast to natural earthquakes, explosions usually have a telltale wave pattern, with a strong initial spike and up-and-down "Raleigh waves" signifying a shallow event).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bigger Isn't Always Better] Reference