PINWHEEL

Pinwheel

Pinwheel is a children's television show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1977 to 1989. The show originally aired on channel C-3 of Warner Cable's interactive system QUBE in Columbus, Ohio, and it began airing on Nickelodeon when it first launched in April 1979.

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pinwheel

Noun

  1. a fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.
  2. a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel
  3. A cogged (toothed) gear.

Verb

  1. To spin.
    The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.


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