cartwheel
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cartwheel (plural cartwheels)
- The literal wheel of a cart.
- A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- Half-a-crown is known as an smallcaps alderman, smallcaps half a bull, smallcaps half a tusheroon, and a smallcaps madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a smallcaps bull, or a smallcaps caroon, or a smallcaps cartwheel, or a smallcaps coachwheel, or a smallcaps thick-un, or a smallcaps tusheroon.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
- German: Wagenrad
- Russian: колесо́
- Spanish: rueda del carro
- French: roue
- German: Rad
- Portuguese: estrelinha, estrela
- Russian: колесо́
- Spanish: voltereta lateral
- Russian: колесо́
cartwheel (cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling; past cartwheeled, past participle cartwheeled)
- To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
- To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
- The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.
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