three-point turn

British  

noun

1. a turn reversing the direction of motion of a motor vehicle using forward and reverse gears alternately, and completed after only three movements

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Example Sentences

But during a three-point turn she accidentally reversed the Model X SUV into a pond.

From BBC

The tank starts to move while the second vehicle carries out a three-point turn.

From BBC

She then went on to do a three-point turn on the narrow road and investigators believe she was travelling at just 2.3mph before she hit Mr Kerr.

From BBC

“It does feel like this EV market has really been like ‘hurry up and wait’” This is partly because the act of transforming century-old industry is like making a three-point turn in a cruise ship.

From The Verge

As one of McCarthy’s characters avers during a disquisition on the three-point turn that killed Franz Ferdinand: “I’m not saying anything. Just tracing out a set of lines; a fracture network. That’s all I do.”

From Washington Post