spinout

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noun

spin·​out ˈspin-ˌau̇t 

: a rotational skid by an automobile that usually causes it to leave the roadway

spin out

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verb

spun out; spinning out; spins out

intransitive verb

: to make a rotational skid in an automobile

Examples of spinout in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Princeton University spinout Thea Energy has secured a $20 million award from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program to scale production of high-temperature superconducting magnets for its fusion technology. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026

While NBCUniversal’s announced spinout from Comcast has raised industry hopes for more mergers and acquisitions, Cavanagh and others have poured cold water on the notion, focusing on potential partnerships and bundles instead. — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 27 July 2026

Verb

Instead, according to a NASA statement on Tuesday, the rescue spacecraft began spinning out of control and temporarily lost communications. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 29 July 2026

The overbearing online explainers and the off-the-cuff fuzz-rockers and the nine-and-counting films and the self-effacing but also self-aggrandizing mockumentary spin out from the same very modern feeling that to be is to respond and react. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1955, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1951, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for spinout

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout