spinout

See also: spin out

English

From spin +‎ out.

spinout (plural spinouts)

(automotive) A skid that results in a vehicle rotating such that its longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion.
- 2009 March 8, Robert F. Worth, “Saudis Race All Night, Fueled by Boredom”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  Sulayman al-Shulukhi, left, races his modified Subaru Impreza every weekend night and delights in describing wrecks and spinouts.
(business) The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.