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defensive spirals

defensive spirals is the plural of defensive spiral.

Meaning of defensive spiral

Noun

defensive spiral (plural defensive spirals)

  1. A last-resort defensive maneuver in dogfighting used by an aircraft with critically-low kinetic energy, consisting of a rolling scissors performed straight down, using gravity to supply the kinetic energy needed to continue maneuvering, while attempting to either slow down enough to get behind the attacker or else trick the attacker into crashing into the ground.

Questions about defensive spirals

What is defensive spirals the plural of?
Defensive spirals is the plural of defensive spiral.

Words near defensive spirals in the dictionary

  1. defensive medicine
  2. defensive midfielder
  3. defensive midfielders
  4. defensive programming
  5. defensive spiral
  6. defensive spirals
  7. defensive tackle
  8. defensive tackles
  9. defensive wound
  10. defensive wounds
  11. defensive zone

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