noun [sing.]
1 a situation in which a pilot loses control of an aircraft and it spins as it falls quickly towards the ground, with the back making larger circles than the front:
to go into / pull out of a tailspin
2 a situation that suddenly becomes much worse and is not under control:
Following the announcement, share prices went into a tailspin.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tailspin is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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