Burnout vs Spinout - What's the difference?
burnout | spinout |
Using the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
(US, slang) A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out.
(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
(automotive) A skid that results in a car rotating so as not to be oriented in the direction of linear motion.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 8, author=Robert F. Worth, title=Saudis Race All Night, Fueled by Boredom, work=New York Times
, passage=Sulayman al-Shulukhi, left, races his modified Subaru Impreza every weekend night and delights in describing wrecks and spinouts .}}
(business) The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
As nouns the difference between burnout and spinout
is that burnout is using the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber while spinout is (automotive) a skid that results in a car rotating so as not to be oriented in the direction of linear motion.burnout
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