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wheelspinning

wheelspinning is the present participle and gerund of wheelspin.

Meaning of wheelspin

Verb

wheelspin (third-person singular simple present wheelspins, present participle wheelspinning, simple past wheelspun or wheelspan or wheelspinned, past participle wheelspun or wheelspinned)

  1. To drive with poor traction, so that the vehicle exhibits a wheelspin.
    • 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: […]1992, Martina Cole, Dangerous Lady, Headline, →ISBN, page 186
  2. To throw up (debris) from a wheelspin.
    • With only small encouragement from me, and using skills learned on a racing track, he gunned his Land-Rover forward, cut up the saloon and wheelspan a few stones its way as we turned down an unsurfaced track.2007, Anthony Loyd, Another Bloody Love Letter, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 24

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Questions about wheelspinning

What is wheelspinning the present participle and gerund of?
Wheelspinning is the present participle and gerund of wheelspin.

Words near wheelspinning in the dictionary

  1. wheelsmiths
  2. wheelspan
  3. wheelspans
  4. wheelspin
  5. wheelspinned
  6. wheelspinning
  7. wheelspins
  8. wheelspun
  9. wheelstand
  10. wheelstanded
  11. wheelstander

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