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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(aviation) The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral..
The loss of the third engine threw the plane into a tailspin.
Just hours after leaving the institution, she suffered another tailspin.
The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.
St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast […] . Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.
But I was reading a statement that either you made or was part of your movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and it said we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
Use tailspin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tailspin means (aviation) The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral..
Common synonyms include spin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The loss of the third engine threw the plane into a tailspin.
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