BARREL ROLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barrel roll mean? 

• BARREL ROLL (noun)
  The noun BARREL ROLL has 1 sense:

1. a roll in which the plane follows a spiral course

  Familiarity information: BARREL ROLL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARREL ROLL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A roll in which the plane follows a spiral course

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("barrel roll" is a kind of...):

roll (a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude)

 Context examples 

Unlike any other planet in our solar system, Uranus spins almost perfectly on its side completing a barrel roll once every 17 hours.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)