Definitions for tailspins

tailspins tail·spin

Spelling: [teyl-spin]
IPA: /ˈteɪlˌspɪn/

Tailspins is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in tailspins (aiilnpsst).

Definitions for tailspins

noun

  1. spin (def 23).
  2. a sudden and helpless collapse into failure, confusion, or the like.

verb (used without object)

  1. to take or experience a sudden and dramatic downturn:

Origin of tailspins

First recorded in 1910-15; tail1 + spin

Examples for tailspins

As she stepped inside this gigantic barrel her mind went into a tailspin.

So there we have it: another lewd, dull-witted performance has sent America into a tailspin of indignation.

A warning from the observation towersomebody was in tailspin.

Russia-U.S. relations were in a tailspin when Obama entered office.

Yes, he had all but gone into a tailspin, and that with his motor thundering at its best.

Then a white supremacist started talking segregation and everything went into a tailspin.

Instantly the heavy plane went into a tailspin and plunged earthward.

A glass of wine may help you go down for the night, but a few too many can send your sleep cycle into a tailspin.

She side-slipped, her nose dipped down, an she went into a tailspin.

Shockingly, it was not the mass gay-and-straight wedding that sent some of his peers into a tailspin that bothered Beck.

Word Value for tailspins
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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