fishtail
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɪʃteɪl/
fishtail (plural fishtails)
- The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
- The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
- A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
- French: queue de poisson
fishtail (fishtails, present participle fishtailing; past and past participle fishtailed)
- (intransitive) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
- As we approached the runway, the pilot fishtailed slightly to reduce landing speed.
- (transitive) To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
- 2013, Jeffrey Bernhardt, The Indian: America's Waking Dream, Berkeley Radicals, War, Riots, Drugs and Revolution
- But Bruce wasn't done baiting the jocks. He fishtailed the car; it swerved and reversed direction, heading straight for the three jocks who were chasing them on foot. It looked like he was going to run the car over the three men.
- 2013, Jeffrey Bernhardt, The Indian: America's Waking Dream, Berkeley Radicals, War, Riots, Drugs and Revolution
- (intransitive) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
- 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 3:
- A large black and gold butterfly fish-tailed in and landed on a hydrangea bush almost at my elbow, moved its wings slowly up and down a few times, then took off heavily […]
- 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 3:
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