rooster-tail

Or spin out to the highway spitting a rooster-tail of gravel.

Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011

Or spin out to the highway spitting a rooster-tail of gravel.

Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011

I chuckled at that rooster-tail of his sticking up and his sandy forelock flopping down in his eyes every time he bobbed down to attack another weed.

Miz Pat Tackles The Duckling Killer « A Fly in Amber 2008

Hiram was racing ahead of me like a hare running for cover, his old rooster-tail flapping in the breeze.

Miz Pat Tackles The Duckling Killer « A Fly in Amber 2008

I swear one wheel came off the ground, one wheel alone, the wingtip on my side dragging for just a second, slewing us around, throwing up a rooster-tail so short I could see both ends of the arc flying, then it came down again, Paul yodeling something I couldn't make out.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

Nanoannie had seen the rover coming from a long way away, kicking up a rooster-tail of dust from its rearmost axle.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

There was a blur of pink above the con-crete ridge which bore the rail; a rooster-tail of dust, stones, small dismembered animals, and whirling foliage followed along after.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

It was that rooster-tail of sand that had given him this idea, though, so maybe it wasn't all bad.

Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

The white sand went up in a rooster-tail behind them as they put some serious distance between them and their pursuers.

Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

The white sand went up in a rooster-tail behind them as they put some serious distance between them and their pursuers.

The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993