barrel roll
2
7.8
- noun
- /ˈbɛrəl roʊl/
- Specialized
:
vuelo en barril
- During the flight demonstration, the pilot performed an impressive barrel roll that thrilled the spectators.
- execute a barrel roll
- perform a barrel roll
- two barrel rolls
And when it came out the other side of the barn, it would like turn on its side and then do a, do a barrel roll and land.
- And when it came out the other side of the barn, it would like turn on its side and then do a, do a barrel roll and land.
- Yeah, like a couple barrel rolls and like A to the double guns.
- This is plane is doing barrel rolls right now and it was only me and Mark Mizinski.
Examples
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There was a barrel roll, another loop, a pass over the truck, and then the plane disappeared, swallowed up by a field of tall coastal Bermuda.
Fiction book (1994) -
Hey, how'd the barrel roll go?
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Everybody ready for the barrel roll?
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Oh, the barrel roll was great.
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Once high enough, it goes into a wild barrel roll.
Fiction book (1996) -
Do a barrel roll!
Blog text (1) -
It did a barrel roll, and Lizette giggled.
Fiction book (1994) -
My memory carries little of the various acrobatics we engaged in, for they all merge in my mind as a dizzying sequence; but they included steep climbs, barrel rolls, and a final power dive over the Chesapeake Bay.
Academic text (2007) -
To showcase the aircraft's agility, the fighter jet executed a barrel roll while flying at high speed.
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The instructor explained that a barrel roll is a maneuver where the plane rotates around its axis while spiraling.
Synonyms
22
7.5
A plane move where it turns around its length without changing height
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'barrel' (a cylindrical object that rolls) with 'roll' (a rotation), so the maneuver can be visualized as an aircraft rotating like a rolling barrel. This is a straightforward, imageable metaphor found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Barrel roll The air-show move barrel roll is named for the image of a wooden barrel rolling forward and turning over, just like the airplane does in the sky. That's why the phrase means 'a complete rotation of an airplane while it moves forward'.