FISHTAIL
- device having a long, narrow slot at the top, placed over a gas jet, as of a Bunsen burner, to give a thin, fanlike flame
- to swerve or skid from side to side, as the rear end of a car
- to slow an airplane by causing its tail to move rapidly from side to side
- such a maneuver
- gas burner having two jets crossing each other so as to produce a flame resembling a fish's tail
- to have the rear end of a moving vehicle slide from side to side [v FISHTAILED, FISHTAILING, FISHTAILS]
- to swing the tail of a moving vehicle from side to side [v -ED, -ING, -S]