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three-point turn

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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Esser got back in her car, made a three-point turn and drove toward Victor.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 28, 2022

“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 Dec. 21, 2021

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 Nov. 15, 2021

Harris was driving a black Porsche GT3 Touring on the A466 near Tintern in Monmouthshire when he crashed into a pick-up truck doing a three-point turn.

From BBC Nov. 13, 2018

At the end of our cul-de-sac the driver, a woman, did a three-point turn, stalled once, and drove off up Kingfisher Meadows.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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