crash dive
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.98 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An emergency maneuver by a submarine in which it suddenly descends, especially to considerable depth, usually in order to escape an attack or avoid a collision.
noun
Three quarters of a front somersault, beginning on the feet and landing on the back.
verb
To rapidly descend, intentionally or accidentally, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "As the crash dive began at 1:50 p.m., the overboard ventilation valve had not been closed, which resulted in tons of water flooding the submarine."
- "In "Icarus's Mother," a skywriter salutes two girls on a beach with the message, "E=MC²," and then swirls into a deadly crash dive."
- "The next routine can be the same as Routine 7 but with the crash dive being replaced with a one-and-three-quarter front somersault tucked (with a tariff of 0.7), making the total tariff 4.8"
- "Cuthburt turned the Grandmere in time to see the U-69 within yards of his ship. Graf wasted no time in taking evasive action, crash diving and turning, barely escaping the Grandmere’s efforts to ram him."
- "Siegmann was still obliged to crash-dive the sub three more times to escape twelve more bombs."
- "At 0640 hours, a Japanese suicide plane crash-dove into the USS Gilligan."