The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fish-tail \Fish"-tail`\, a. Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "fish-tail".
Moe Kaufman stumbling from his vehicle and running with arms flailing toward the blacktop, galvanized by the unexpected appearance there of beloved flesh--the little sportster burning rubber and fish-tailing to a quick halt.
And likewise to a man, it had arms, torso and legs, the latter shrivelled, twisted and protruding uselessly from the slithery mass that tapered away in flaps and tufts of fleshy membrane, to a scale-clad fish-tail.
She runs across the road, intending to push herself up the wet earth, to climb, when the white stretch limo comes fish-tailing down the slick hillside road, hell, it must be doing eighty, maybe even aquaplaning on the surface of the road, and she's pushing her hands into a handful of weeds and earth, and she's going to get up and away, she knows, when the wet earth crumbles and she tumbles back down onto the road.
She runs across the road, intending to push herself up the wet earth, to climb, when the white stretch limo comes fish-tailing down the slick hillside road, hell, it must be doing eighty, maybe even aquaplaning on the surface of the road, and she’s pushing her hands into a handful of weeds and earth, and she’s going to get up and away, she knows, when the wet earth crumbles and she tumbles back down onto the road.