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What (who) is turn about - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
About turn; About-face; About face; About Face (disambiguation); About Face (film)

turn about      
Move the face to another quarter.
about-turn         
  • Taiwanese No U-turn sign
  • Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States.]]
  • [[Contrail]] of a plane that took a U-turn
DRIVING TECHNIQUE USED WHEN SOMEONE PERFORMS A 180° ROTATION
No U Turn; U-Turn; U-ie; Uturn; Flip a bitch; Flip-a-bitch; Flip bitch; U-turn (maneuver); About-turn; U turn; U Turn; One Eighty; U-turns; No U-Turn
(about-turns)
An about-turn is the same as an about-face
. (BRIT; in AM, use about-face
)
N-COUNT
about-turn         
  • Taiwanese No U-turn sign
  • Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States.]]
  • [[Contrail]] of a plane that took a U-turn
DRIVING TECHNIQUE USED WHEN SOMEONE PERFORMS A 180° ROTATION
No U Turn; U-Turn; U-ie; Uturn; Flip a bitch; Flip-a-bitch; Flip bitch; U-turn (maneuver); About-turn; U turn; U Turn; One Eighty; U-turns; No U-Turn
(also chiefly N. Amer. about-face)
¦ noun Brit.
1. Military a turn made so as to face the opposite direction.
2. informal a complete change of opinion or policy.

Wikipedia

About Face

About Face may refer to:

  • About-face, a drill command in which a unit or soldier makes a 180-degree turn
Examples of use of turn about
1. The man most responsible for this turn–about was the late Yitzhak Rabin.
2. When he attempted to make a U–turn, about 10 people came up to him and threw stones at his car, he said yesterday.
3. He said the tide began to turn about a year and a half ago, sometime in mid–2004 when the insurgency kicked into high gear.
4. The last radar picture of the plane showed the single–engine aircraft flying at 500 feet in a left turn, about a quarter–mile north of the building it eventually stuck, according to the NTSB.
5. Time and again were My revelations recited to you, but every time you would turn about on your heels, reveling in your arrogance, and talking senselessly far into the night.