The tennis star was famed for her topspin.
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Topspin
Synonyms for "topspin" (2 found)
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Catalan
1 entries- efecte de rodolament noun (type of spin)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 上旋 noun (type of spin)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 上旋 noun (type of spin)
Finnish
1 entries- yläkierre noun (type of spin)
German
1 entries- Vorwärtsdrall noun (type of spin)
Spanish
1 entries- ajuaishte noun (type of spin)
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Well remembered as a visual comedienne, she also had the verbal knack of putting all sorts of topspin on a line.
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Flashdance had a quality known as top spin, in which the casting, the concept and the look and sound of the movie all come together.
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2016, Quentin Letts, "A Very English Scandal: sex, lies and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment by John Preston - review" (in Evening Standard, 28 April 2016) https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/a-very-english-scandal-sex-lies-and-a-murder-plot-at-the-heart-of-the-establishment-by-john-preston-a3236271.html This fluent, readable book has certainly been polished with a fair degree of what Fleet Street feature editors once called topspin: “Give it some topspin, old boy. Make the copy sing.” In this John Preston more than succeeds.
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