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left turns

left turns is the plural of left turn.

left turns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of left turn.

Meaning of left turn

Noun

left turn (plural left turns)

  1. (idiomatic) An unexpected change from the way things seemed to be going.
    • After a self-titled debut did well, Miracle took a surprising left turn with 2001's Keep It Country.2007, Roni Sarig, Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see left, turn.

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Questions about left turns

What is left turns the plural of?
Left turns is the plural of left turn.

Words near left turns in the dictionary

  1. left to the imagination
  2. left total
  3. left turn
  4. left turned
  5. left turning
  6. left turns
  7. left ventricle
  8. left ventricles
  9. left ventricular ejection time
  10. left ventricular ejection times
  11. left well alone

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