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to spin-out

1 6.1

To lose control of a vehicle so it spins around

phrasal verb
/spɪn aʊt/

: derrapar

Fred's car skids, spins out, whirling around like a record on a turntable.
spin out of control
cars spin out
begin to spin out

Examples

The Lincoln spins out of control, twirling like crazy before it hits one of the trucks and explodes in flames.

Fiction book (1999)
The speeding jeep spins out of control.

Fiction book (1990)
The two cars spin out of control.

Fiction book (1991)
The nose suddenly points earthward, and the plane begins to spin out of control.

Fiction book (1994)
The car spins out of control, just missing the truck, and hurtling down the icy highway.

Fiction book (1994)
When the road became icy, he lost control of the car and spun out into the ditch.
During the race, the driver quickly realized he was going too fast and spun out on the wet track.
After hitting a patch of black ice, her vehicle spun out before colliding with the guardrail.

Synonyms

to skid

vsto spin-out

3 3.5

To slide sideways without control, usually when a car's wheels lose grip on a slippery road

rotates completely losing directional control rather than sliding

How Dangerous

crash

∞ 2.3

to roll over

30 1.4

to spin-out

1 6.1

to skid

3 3.5

Surface Forms

spin-out infinitive

spinning-out present participle

spin-outs third person singular

spun-out past

spun-out past participle

Morphology

spin-out = spin + out (transparent) = spin + out

The verb is the direct phrasal combination 'spin' + 'out' describing loss of control and rotation, which is compositional and learnable from the parts.

Etymology

Spin-out as a verb comes from spin ('to turn quickly') and out ('away'), so to spin-out is to turn out of control in a vehicle. That's why people warn that a car can spin-out on ice or oil.