What does nose-dive mean?

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nose-dive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

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nose-dives (plural) nose-dives (present, singular) nose-diving (participle, present) nose-dived (past) nose-dove (US, past) nose-dived (participle, past)

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