英和和英

名詞

figure eight (複数形 figure eights)

1. The shape consisting of two circles or ovals joined together at one point, resembling the numeral 8.
2. A maneuver in which one rides, skates, or otherwise traces a path that forms a figure eight.
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     The bikers pop wheelies and execute speedy figure eights along the busy street. Still, something more purposeful than joyriding would seem to be on their minds.

同意語

• figure of eight

動詞

figure eight (三人称単数 現在形 figure eights, 現在分詞 figure eighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 figure eighted)

1. To move in a figure eight pattern.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 61:

     For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.

2. (slang) To engage in mutual masturbation (meaning 2).

動詞

figure-eight (三人称単数 現在形 figure-eights, 現在分詞 figure-eighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 figure-eighted)

1. To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 61:

     For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.

   • 1974, Harold Black, Manual of Horsemanship:

     When he has been circled or figure-eighted enough times, he will become convinced that he is not to be asked to take the fence.

   • 1980, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, Seaman, page 87:

     To prevent the hook from tumbling and coming out of the hoisting eye, a short lanyard on the pea of the counterbalance is figure-eighted around the shank and tip.

   • 2002, Prudence Mackintosh, Retreads, →ISBN, page 59:

     Back and forth across the dim street he gracefully figure-eighted, using only his narrow hips and occasionally one hand to direct the bicycle.