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U-turn

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See also:u-turn

English

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A car making aU-turn.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromU +‎turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letterU.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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U-turn (pluralU-turns)

  1. Aturn in avehicle carried out by driving in asemicircle in order to travel in theoppositedirection.
    Synonym:uey(informal)
    Hypernyms:turnaround <turn
    Hyponyms:handbrake turn,moonshiner's turn
    Coordinate terms:three-point turn,K-turn
    • 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, inBBC[1]:
      What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashingU-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
  2. (figuratively) Areversal ofpolicy oropinion.
    Synonyms:about-face,flipflop,flip-flop,backflip,turnaround
    Hypernym:turn
    Coordinate term:left turn
    The government have done aU-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
    • 2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
      Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, announced a majorU-turn on the government’s climate commitments last month, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.

Usage notes

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  • Often used in the phrasesdo a U-turn ormake a U-turn.

Descendants

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Translations

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semi-circular turn
reversal of policy
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Verb

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U-turn (third-person singular simple presentU-turns,present participleU-turning,simple past and past participleU-turned)

  1. To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).
    Synonyms:(all informal, most regional)hang a uey,bang a uey,flip a bitch(US),chuck a uey(Australia)
    Hypernyms:turn around <turn
    Coordinate terms:hang a Louie(),hang a Ralph()
  2. (intransitive) To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite.
    Synonyms:flip,flop,flip-flop,flipflop,turn around
    Coordinate term:come around
    • 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, inThe Guardian[3]:
      She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having justU-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.

Translations

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to turn a vehicle in a semicircle
to shift from one opinion to its opposite
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