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{
"ref": "1908, Winefride Trafford-Taunton, chapter XII, in The Threshold, London: John Long […], →OCLC, 1st part (The Clay Creatures), page 93",
"text": "\"This gentleman may help you,\" he repeated, with his wooden hand wave and his usual rotund heel turn, which transported him indoors.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1966 August, Joyce Rockwood Muench, “The Navajo Alps”, in Arizona Highways, volume 42, number 8, Phoenix, Ariz.: Arizona Highway Department, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2",
"text": "A heel-turn to the northwest in Utah, the Abajos stand up to be counted; farther west the Henry Mountain; and on the border of Arizona, the dark lump of Navajo Mountain, the ten-thousand-foot-high home of the Navajo Wargod.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Owen G. Irons, Wind Stalker, New York, N.Y.: Dell, page 184",
"text": "Then he did a heel turn and strode out of the courtroom.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Wendy Etherington, Wedding Bell Blues (Precious Gem Romance; no. 266), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, page 155",
"text": "The security men nodded solemnly, executed a quick heel turn, then hurried off.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"An act of turning around abruptly, especially so that one faces the opposite direction."
],
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"act",
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],
[
"turning around",
"turn around"
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[
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[
"faces",
"face#Verb"
],
[
"opposite",
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],
[
"direction",
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]
],
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"(by extension) An act of turning around abruptly, especially so that one faces the opposite direction."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
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"English terms with quotations"
],
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"An act of turning around abruptly, especially so that one faces the opposite direction.",
"A radical change (of mind, opinion, etc.)."
],
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"faces",
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"opposite",
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"direction",
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"change",
"change#Noun"
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[
"mind",
"mind#Noun"
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[
"opinion",
"opinion"
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"(by extension) An act of turning around abruptly, especially so that one faces the opposite direction.",
"(figuratively) A radical change (of mind, opinion, etc.)."
],
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{
"word": "180"
},
{
"word": "about-face"
},
{
"word": "about turn"
},
{
"word": "turnabout"
},
{
"word": "volte-face"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "face turn"
}
],
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"English terms with quotations",
"en:Professional wrestling"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, John F. Molinaro, edited by Jeff Marek and Dave Meltzer, Top 100 Pro Wrestlers of All Time, Toronto, Ont.: Winding Stair Press, page 78, column 1",
"text": "As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Dave Meltzer, editor, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Campbell, Calif.: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 1, column 2",
"text": "The early 1999 destruction of [Ric] Flair in storyline fashion, even as Flair and Hulk Hogan were drawing the last of the company's great buy rates (although Flair's heel turn after drawing the last big buy rate for a SuperBrawl in San Francisco was Flair's own doing) was not a bunch of angles that were bad ideas, such as the period he was confined to a nut house (and somehow even made that drivel entertaining).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a hero changes to being considered a villain"
],
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"professional wrestling",
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"situation",
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"wrestler",
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[
"identified",
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],
[
"hero",
"hero"
],
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"changes",
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],
[
"consider",
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],
[
"villain",
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]
],
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"(professional wrestling) A situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a hero changes to being considered a villain"
],
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"martial-arts",
"military",
"politics",
"professional-wrestling",
"sports",
"war",
"wrestling"
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},
{
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{
"word": "face turn"
}
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"English terms with quotations",
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{
"ref": "2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28",
"text": "More than any other episode to date, “The Last Of The Starks” heralds Daenerys’ heel turn. She’s been poised for it for some time, though the timing varies depending on the character perspective—Varys has always been ready to fly to another camp if he felt something was amiss or he just found a more viable candidate, while Tyrion [Lannister] and Jon [Snow] still want to serve her.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a hero changes to being considered a villain",
"A situation in which someone changes from being a hero into a villain."
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"professional wrestling",
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],
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"broadly"
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"martial-arts",
"military",
"politics",
"professional-wrestling",
"sports",
"war",
"wrestling"
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhiːl təːn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhil ˌtɚn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "heel turn"
}
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