Wheelspin

Quick meaning: Wheelspin is a noun meaning To drive with poor traction, so that the vehicle exhibits a wheelspin.

Meaning

To drive with poor traction, so that the vehicle exhibits a wheelspin.

More Meanings

1. To throw up (debris) from a wheelspin.
2. (automotive) The spinning of the wheels of a vehicle on the surface of the ground with greatly reduced friction and little movement of the vehicle, especially when starting.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: wheelslip

A computer detects wheelspin and reduces power.

When, suddenly and inexplicably, the car had started he had wheelspun away from the kerb in his effort to keep it going.

It was not unusual to see an ice cream van wheelspin away, dragging a runner into the service hatch as it went, especially on the police patches: […]

Word Forms

• wheelspins
• wheelspinning
• wheelspun
• wheelspan
• wheelspinned

Synonyms for wheelspin

Depending on context, synonyms include wheelslip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spinning, wheelie, despinning, wheeling, wheel, spinathon.

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