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: --
However, the club then went into a tailspin from which they didn't really recover until the 1950s when they began once again to field decent sides.
The disappearance of disposable consumer income for the country and the backlash against corporate entertainment spending sent the hospitality industry into a tailspin.
The name of the show is a play on tailspin, the rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.
Witnesses said that the plane appeared to have lost part of its wing while flying over the neighborhood and entered into a tailspin.
At the end of 1991, when the union officially dissolved, the national economy was in a virtual tailspin.
The speed necessary to go into a tailspin was 55 km/h, with an altitude loss at one spin of 75 meters.
After taking off and climbing four-hundred feet, the plane stalled and entered an unrecoverable tailspin in front of hundreds of horrified spectators.
Faithfull's personal life went into decline, and her career went into a tailspin.
