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whirl

2 noun
     
whirl2
1

give something a whirl

informal to try something that you are not sure you are going to like or be able to do:
Why don't you give golf a whirl?
2 [singular] a lot of activity of a particular kind:
the social whirl of New York publishing
whirl of
The next two days passed in a whirl of activity.
3

be in a whirl

to feel very excited or confused about something:
His mind was in a whirl and he was worried.
4 [countable usually singular] a spinning movement or the shape of something that is spinning
whirl of
A car rumbled over the bumpy dirt road, leaving behind a whirl of white dust.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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