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- noun Plural form of
tailfin .
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Examples
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Two mach-donuts of ruptured air smash out from my tailfins.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The jutting tailfins of Cadillacs spoke of the brash confidence that prevailed in a country on its way to landing men on the moon.
Sunday Reading 2009
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We thought we were unearthing a buried Cadillac, but it turned out to be an alien spacecraft with two-foot tailfins and a really badass sound system, and a disco ball hanging from the roof.
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Two mach-donuts of ruptured air smash out from my tailfins.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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We thought we were unearthing a buried Cadillac, but it turned out to be an alien spacecraft with two-foot tailfins and a really badass sound system, and a disco ball hanging from the roof.
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So start slowly: Think tailfins and chrome instead of a new engine.
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THE 1950s had to end sometime, and in Detroit the soaring tailfins of 1959 models put an exclamation point at the conclusion of an exuberant decade of unchecked optimism.
Sunday Reading 2009
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Last weekend the Hall of Fame made tailfins the theme of its annual classic car show, which included 40 models.
Sunday Reading 2009
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Heck, I love me some Mad Men, and the only tailfins in that show are on the cars.
Three Battlestar Galactica spinoffs better than ‘Caprica’ 2009
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Two mach-donuts of ruptured air smash out from my tailfins.
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