Usually means: Lose rear traction, car swerves.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word fishtail:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. fishtail: Merriam-Webster
  2. fishtail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fishtail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fishtail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fishtail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fishtail, fishtail: Wordnik
  7. fishtail: Wiktionary
  8. fishtail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fishtail: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fishtail: Dictionary.com
  11. Fishtail (tool), Fishtail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fishtail: Rhymezone
  13. fishtail: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fishtail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fishtail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. fishtail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fishtail: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fishtail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fishtail: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
noun:  The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
noun:  A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
verb:  (intransitive) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
verb:  (transitive) To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
verb:  (intransitive) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
noun:  Short for fishtail palm. [Any palm in the genus Caryota; their leaflets are reminiscent of the tail-fins of a fish.]

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