fishtail

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[ˈfɪʃteɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an object which is forked like a fish's tail
(e.g: fishtail battlements)

- an uncontrolled sideways movement of the back of a motor vehicle
(e.g: he hit the brake, sending the car into a fishtail that carried him across the street)


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[ˈfɪʃteɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of a vehicle) make an uncontrolled sideways movement
(e.g: the vehicle fishtailed from one side of the road to the other)


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