GYRATE


Meaning of GYRATE in English

(~s, gyrating, ~d)

1.

If you ~, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements.

The woman began to ~ to the music.

...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies.

VERB: V, V-ing

gyration (gyrations)

Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage.

N-COUNT: usu pl

2.

To ~ means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast.

The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.

VERB: V prep, also V

3.

If things such as prices or currencies ~, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (JOURNALISM)

Interest rates began to ~ up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again.

VERB: V adv/prep, also V

gyration

...the gyrations of the currency markets.

N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp

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