Definition of "swan-dive" []

• To perform a swan dive (verb)
• To plummet, drop rapidly (verb)

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• "The dual purpose of creation, looking backward in that natural looping swan-dive you put me through."
• "I used to swan-dive a hundred and ten feet in the clear."
• "It was all one — ­to dance, as she well knew, beautifully; to dress with distinction and beauty; to swan-dive, all grace and courage, as few women dared; or, all fragility, to avalanche down the spill-way on the back of Mountain"