(US, automotive) An automobile driving maneuver where the driver puts the vehicle in a controlled skid in order to quickly reverse the vehicle's bearing to the opposite direction.
(US, automotive) An automobile driving maneuver where the driver puts the vehicle in a controlled skid in order to quickly reverse the vehicle's bearing to the opposite direction.
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(colloquial, US) A rapid illegal U-turn performed by putting the car in neutral and applying the hand brake, thereby producing a controlled skid, with the car still moving backwards when forward power is again applied.
An illegally produced, transported or sold product.
(ambitransitive) To engage in bootlegging.
(transitive) To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
(US, slang, vulgar, automotive) To make a rapid and illegal U-turn.