Definition of corkscrew
: a device for drawing corks from bottles that has a pointed spiral piece of metal turned by a handle
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The corkscrew-like movement of their tails propels them in right-hand circles along a completely random path.
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But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot.
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Black did a moonsault to Almas from the middle rope to the floor almost immediately, and later Almas' corkscrew plancha to the floor was breathtaking.
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In this video, stunt pilot Spencer Suderman puts the trick to great effect with a GoPro and a gimbal that stabilizes his high-flying action to everything from the ground, to the plane's corkscrew trail.
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Instead, he and an unnamed female companion were chased dozens of miles across Sunflower County before they were captured, tied to a tree, tortured with corkscrews and knives, and burned alive.
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Tell Sarah to leave her amaro at home, and when Brian asks for the corkscrew, tell him it’s in the backyard…somewhere.
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Eliot Shen, project manager for a property developer in Taipei, has installed buffers under a new corkscrew-shaped, high-end apartment tower.
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Outside of the city center at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, visitors can descend the futuristic Orbit tower via a thrill added in 2016: the world's longest, tallest and transparent tunnel slide, measuring 580 feet with corkscrew turns.
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First Known Use of corkscrew
1698
Examples of corkscrew in a Sentence
an angelic child with beautiful corkscrew curls
First Known Use of corkscrew
1790
Definition of corkscrew
: to move in a winding course
Examples of corkscrew in a Sentence
practically every word had to be corkscrewed out of the tight-lipped witness
the trail corkscrews through dense woods to the top of the steep hill
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Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, who as a slugger in the 1970s would appear to corkscrew himself into the earth on missed swings, is renowned for becoming the first major leaguer to hit three home runs in a World Series game.
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In the second video, a Reaper-like drone is seen corkscrewing through the air, falling straight down, on fire and missing a wing.
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The differences at this point are chiefly visual, Sky's involving what looks to be a massive, corkscrewing cloudscape set against a cerulean sky.
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The real risk-takers make a beeline for the corkscrewing tubular Black Slides.
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The KC-130 tanker corkscrewed into the ground Monday afternoon about 85 miles north of Jackson, the state capital, officials said.
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Navy and Marine Corps investigators are starting to probe why a military transport plane suddenly corkscrewed into a Mississippi soybean field on Monday, killing all 16 personnel onboard.
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A charged particle in the very short-term can still be thought of as corkscrewing around a single field line.
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Beneath the dark canopy, vines corkscrew around bulbous trunks and palms burst up like giant shuttlecocks from the dense foliage underfoot.
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First Known Use of corkscrew
1837
CORKSCREW Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of corkscrew for English Language Learners
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: a tool that is used to pull corks from bottles
CORKSCREW Defined for Kids
Definition of corkscrew for Students
: a pointed spiral piece of metal with a handle that is screwed into corks to pull them from bottles
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