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Skateboarders performed soaring whirlies in front of a freshly painted Shepard Fairey mural of Angelou’s beaming face as food vendors shuffled by pushing carts stacked with fresh mangoes on ice.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2019

Since the Justices so frequently gave with one hand while taking away with the other, anyone intent on labeling the Burger Court has had to fight off a case of the whirlies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, the radius of activity of these whirlies was strictly limited; objects directly in their path only being disturbed.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

Above the glacier ahead whirlies, out-lined in high revolving columns of snow, "stalked about" in their wayward courses.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

The whirlies tracked about in a most irregular manner and woe betide any light object which came in their path.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir