Crossword clues for tailspin
tailspin
- Sudden fall
- Dramatic decline
- Aerobatic manoeuvre
- Sudden collapse
- Severe decline
- Dramatic drop
- Sudden decline
- Sudden collapse into failure
- Sudden and precipitous downturn
- Spiraling air maneuver
- Severe downturn
- Rapid plunge
- Precipitous downturn
- Plane's sudden descent
- Dramatic fall
- Dramatic downturn
- Dangerous dive
- Critical downturn
- Pilot's danger
- Pilot's nightmare
- Loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse
- Rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral spin
- Sudden descent
- Plane maneuver
- Spiral descent of a plane
- Demoralization
- Slump
- Emergency situation
- Airplane's swift descent
- Emotional upheaval
- Confusion that doesn't have one's head in a whirl
- Capital's not about to collapse in a state of panic
- Ends with Peg in a state of panic
- Alpinist injured in uncontrolled descent
- Aerobatic maneuver
- Airplane maneuver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral. 2 A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown. 3 Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
WordNet
n. loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse
rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral [syn: spin]
Wikipedia
A tailspin is a rapid, high-rotation descent of an airplane.
Tailspin may also refer to:
- Loss of direction and stability in life, possibly due to loss of self-control
- "Tailspin" (1934 song), a 1934 song written by Jimmy Dorsey and Frankie Trumbauer
- "Tailspin", a song by American rock band moe. from their 2007 album The Conch
- "Tailspin", a song by guitarist Vinnie Moore from his 2007 album To the Core
- Tailspin, the name of DandiLion Park's signature roller coaster
- Tailspin (Transformers), a fictional character
- Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy, the US title of the 1989 British television movie Coded Hostile, telling the story of Korean Air Flight 007
- TaleSpin, an animated cartoon series that used characters from the Disney animated movie The Jungle Book
Tailspin is a 1934 song written by Jimmy Dorsey and Frankie Trumbauer. The song was released by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra featuring Frankie Trumbauer in 1934 on Victor and by The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1935 as a Decca single.
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra recorded the song on February 6, 1935 in New York and released it as a 78 single in 1935 on Decca Records, 560B. The record was re-released in 1942 as Decca 4202B, Matrix # 39342. The song was published in 1934 by Robbins Music in New York.
Usage examples of "tailspin".
Her senses immediately went into a tailspin, her face felt hot, her body quivery.
The velocity of the heavier car swung the Mercedes into a centrifugal tailspin, almost welding it to the side of the Mafia vehicle in another shattering impact.
Reason Three: she does not go into an emotional tailspin after the act of love even if her thoughts trend toward death then, like yours do.
For some disconnected reason, he had the Super Six on his mind: Neddy, Huey, Deli Bob, Bernie, Tailspin Tommy.
Two years ago, something like this would have broken me, sent me into a tailspin of agony and despair and suicidal self-pity.
George heaved a vinous sigh that sent a neighboring fly into an alcoholic tailspin.
If Dugan didn't come out of his tailspin in thirty or forty seconds, he would haul ass.