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speed wobble

speed wobble is the alternative form of death wobble.

Meaning of death wobble

Noun

death wobble (plural death wobbles)

  1. (informal) Severe vibration and instability of a motor vehicle.
    • I hit a pothole at high speed and my motorbike went straight into a death wobble.

Forms of speed wobble

pluralspeed wobbles

Origin of speed wobble

From the fact that this phenomenon occurs at high speeds.

Questions about speed wobble

What is speed wobble the alternative form of?
Speed wobble is the alternative form of death wobble.

Words near speed wobble in the dictionary

  1. speed teaching
  2. speed trap
  3. speed traps
  4. speed up
  5. speed walking
  6. speed wobble
  7. speed wobbles
  8. speed-dating
  9. speed-dial
  10. speed-dialed
  11. speed-dialing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speed wobble (page history and authors); death wobble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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