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whipstall

[hwip-stawl, wip-]Aeronautics
noun
  1. a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
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verb (used with object)
  1. to cause (an aircraft) to undergo whipstall.
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verb (used without object)
  1. (of an aircraft) to undergo whipstall.
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Origin of whipstall

First recorded in 1920–25; whip + stall1
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British Dictionary definitions for whip-stall

whipstall

noun
  1. a stall in which an aircraft goes into a nearly vertical climb, pauses, slips backwards momentarily, and drops suddenly with its nose down
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