All jackknife synonyms
jack·knife
J j verb jackknife
- turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- skid — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- veer — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- swivel — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
- twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
noun jackknife
- cannonball — A cannonball is a heavy metal ball that is fired from a cannon.
- gainer — a person or thing that gains.
- plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- swallow dive — swan dive.