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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A usually intentional stall in which a small aircraft enters a vertical climb, pauses, slips backward momentarily, then drops nose downward.

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  • noun A stall of an aircraft in near-vertical climb, followed by slip-back, before the nose turns toward the ground, sometimes an intentional stunt.

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whip +‎ stall

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