barrel roll

noun

: an airplane maneuver in which a complete revolution about the longitudinal axis is made

: a usually accidental occurrence in which a vehicle rolls completely over along its longitudinal axis

If the accident is violent enough to cause a couple of barrel rolls, the car will do so, despite the flaps.—

Connie Steele

barrel-roll verb, transitive + intransitive

He once flipped a car at 225 miles per hour and barrel-rolled another at 307 mph. —

Preston Lerner

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Pilots will be so excited to perform awesome stunts with a simple tap, fly barrel rolls, and do flips from a stationary hover. —

Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024 Here’s to another year of being thrown upside down into a barrel roll at nauseating speeds over and over with you!! —

Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024 This makes the Pencil sensitive to certain types of movement, like a barrel roll. —

Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024 Asti can play the drums, and Bowie can do barrel rolls. —

Candi Bolden, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for barrel roll