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FISHTAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fishtail mean?
• FISHTAIL (verb)
The verb FISHTAIL has 1 sense:
1. slow down by moving the tail sideways
Familiarity information: FISHTAIL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they fishtail ... he / she / it fishtails
Past simple: fishtailed
Past participle: fishtailed
-ing form: fishtailing
... he / she / it fishtails Past simple: fishtailed
Past participle: fishtailed
-ing form: fishtailing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slow down by moving the tail sideways
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The airplane fishtailed on the runway
Hypernyms (to "fishtail" is one way to...):
decelerate; slow down (reduce the speed of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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