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How do you spell the slang word for uturn? u-ie?

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[+3] - Court Reporter - 04/29/2011The reason he wants to know is probably why I want to know how to spell it. I'm a court reporter, and someone said it in court. I have to write it verbatim, so therefore I have to spell the silly...

@Renee Bellemere,

I don't think it's possible to go wrong with this one.

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I think you need more things to fill out your day......

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I think readers of this thread need to do a 360 and get out of this thread.

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@tycoon,

tycoon wrote:

I think readers of this thread need to do a 360 and get out of this thread.

If u do a 360, all u get is dizzy and facing the same direction as b4.

David

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A U-turn is not slang. That's what it's called. And U-turn is how it's spelled (according to Merriam Webster's dictionary).

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@Roberta,

Roberta wrote:

A U-turn is not slang. That's what it's called. And U-turn is how it's spelled (according to Merriam Webster's dictionary).

I completely misunderstood the question. Sorry about being so pedantic. And sorry about reading too fast. I think the previous posters are right. However you want to spell it is how it's spelled.

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@Renee Bellemere,

here they spell it just as you did: u-ie.

by extrapolation, i spoze a 360 would be a 'double u-ie'...

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@Region Philbis,

Yes; or a 720 woud be a quadruple uy.

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wouldn't it be a 180?
it's a weird question to begin with. A U turn is a U turn, who wants to use a slang word for that? you-ee?? almost like saying yahoo-ee
u-ee ??? I'm getting a headache.

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@drillersmum,

drillersmum wrote:

wouldn't it be a 180?

Presumably, he had that in mind; it makes more sense.

David

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@drillersmum,

drillersmum wrote:

it's a weird question to begin with. A U turn is a U turn, who wants to use a slang word for that?

i thought all aussies loved slang, presumably a sick day is a sick day, but i've heard chuck a sicky more than took a sick day

in canada we'd say "i had to go back, so i pulled a U-ie" instead of "i had to go back, so i made a u-turn"

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I've done too many u-ie? u-ee? while driving. It's as if satan himself steps out and pushes your car by the tail and you spin out of control over ice as black as coal, praying the whole time you hit a snow bank and not a oncoming rig. Only to find your self right back in the same direction, traveling at a pretty good clip. Mind you, it takes a while for the hair on the back of your neck to settle down and your heart to stop racing.
A u-ie by my definition would be one done at full pace like in cop chases. Not just a passive u-turn.

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@Ceili,

No, you're describing a 'bootlegger's turn'.

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@Roberta,

Yes. Use a capital letter.

A U-turn is a U-ie in slang.

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@McTag,

We should capitalize abbreviations?

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@roger,

Not up here. I've never heard that term.

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@Ceili,

Ceili wrote:

I've done too many u-ie? u-ee?

Wouldn't the plural be "U-ies", or "U-ees"?

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@InfraBlue,

Uptill today, I don't think I've ever seen a u-ie written out before. I was trying to illustrate that, poorly in retrospect.. ;-)

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@Ceili,

In the Boston area, they "Bang a uey". I don't recall it being used in New Mexico.

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