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单词 to do doughnuts
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to do (also spin, cut, etc.) doughnuts
3. slang (originally U.S.). A manoeuvre or stunt in which the rear end of a motor vehicle is deliberately made to revolve rapidly around the front end (or vice versa) by means of a controlled skid, often leaving ring-shaped tyre marks or tracks. Also: a similar manoeuvre executed by another type of vehicle. Frequently in to do (also spin, cut, etc.) doughnuts.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > specific manoeuvres
reversing1896
U-turn1915
cutting-in1925
doughnut1951
cut-in1958
U-ey1976
1951 Western Folklore 10 248 Jalopy Slang... To peel a doughnut, to make a complete, fast turn.
1967 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 21 Jan. 4 a/4 Who can sustain the longest ‘doughnut’ (spinning in a tight circle) without the 300-pound, hot-tempered motorcycle making a sandwich out of the rider and the ground.
1985 Los Angeles Times 6 Jan. (South Bay section) xi. 4/3 Two men..were in a truck in a parking area near Marineland ‘doing doughnuts’, spinning their wheels and driving around in circles, when ‘they just lost their bearings’ and plunged to their deaths below.
1994 Boating July 54/1 Rumbling over 6″ wavelets..the Concept tracked well. Cutting doughnuts, it took some light spray aboard.
1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Aug. 36/1 A freckled friend of Sex Machine's loops around him on his bicycle, lazily doing doughnuts.
2005 J. N. Malcolm Write Stuff iii. 37 He was spinning donuts in his new Jeep Wrangler on the gravel behind the stadium after school. He was showing off for the girls.
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