Other forms: u-turns
A u-turn is a complete reversal of direction or of policy. Perform a u-turn.
In politics it is treated as a humiliation, which discourages people from changing their minds. A u-turn in the road is illegal on a motorway and legal almost everywhere else.
1nounu-turnA complete reversal of direction or of policy.
“The u-turn came nine days after the policy was defended.”
u-turn is a reversal.
U-turn comes from U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA