0 a situation in which a plane turns round and round as it falls quickly towards the ground
1 a sudden fall that cannot be controlled:
A slow down in the retail apparel market and ill-conceived merchandising rollouts are cited for causing the company tailspin.
Of course, the little tailspin was the removal of the annual report itself.
Every drop in output is reinforced by further cuts in public expenditure until the economy is locked in a tailspin down towards the ground, towards the crash.
American imports and exports both went into a tailspin.
In 1988, the boat market peaked and then went into a tailspin.
Faithfull's personal life went into decline, and her career went into a tailspin.
After taking off and climbing four-hundred feet, the plane stalled and entered an unrecoverable tailspin in front of hundreds of horrified spectators.
The speed necessary to go into a tailspin was 55 km/h, with an altitude loss at one spin of 75 meters.
