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u-turn
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U-Turn , also known as The Girl in Blue , is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed by George Kaczender . It was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival .
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of U-turn English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934, from U + turn (n.). So called in reference to the shape of the path described.
Usage examples of u-turn.
She watches in the mirror as the two Xcabs try for a U-turn, getting caught up in the three cabs that were following.
He buzzes down the side of the containership, makes a U-turn around its prow.
Kitchen Aide advertisement, did an illegal U-turn across the highway, and followed the box up a narrow road that struggled up the slopes of First Mesa to serve the little stone villages of Walpi, Hano, and Sichomovi and whatever lay beyond them.
U-turn, and we pulled into the gas station and up to a hand crank pump.
After a ten-block ride, they turned left onto Porter Street for three blocks, then did a midblock U-turn that elicited a small gasp from Grace.
I ran a mile and a half down to the Cabana Recreation Center, did a U-turn, and then ran the mile and a half back, finally slowing to a brisk walk as I headed for home.
I did a scrambled U-turn and flew up them, my little legs pumping away like piston-rods.
Gab bie pulled an illegal U-turn on McDermott Street—after making sure no one was coming either way—and headed for what the locals called a highway.
Another shot ripped through the interior of the Lexus and she was off, correcting for the overswing caused by the crash, speeding through a red light, almost broadsiding a dilapidated truck that was lumbering along, clearing it and almost running over a delivery cyclist, stamping hard on the brakes, making the U-turn on Park Avenue in a welter of flying safety glass and torn chrome and plastic, heading downtown like a bat out of hell toward the Midtown Tunnel and home in Old Westbury.
Madame Schumann-Heink spun in a surprisingly agile U-turn and scurried before the truck, rocking cripplingly on dead shocks, her tail pipe farting in tin-can bursts and something Farrell didn’t want to think about dragging just back of her front axle.
He checked the lock and flipped a switch that doused the carport lights, backed the Rolls out and hung a U-turn, then headed west on Sunset.
Dale made a U-turn and drove back east, turning north onto Broad Avenue.
I pulled in beside the garbage bins and made another U-turn, so that I now faced the alley entrance.
As he came nearer she could see that his face was a mask of rage, and it flashed through her mind that she had seen him like that once before: when a careless taxi driver had made a sudden U-turn and knocked down a young man on a motorcycle, injuring him quite badly.
District Attorney Jim Garrison joked during the Shaw conspiracy trial that the government's nuclear physics lab could explain how a single bullet could travel through President Kennedy and Governor Connally five times while making several u-turns, then land in pristine condition on the President's gurney.