The big boat spins, reverse pivots, comes off the bar, and leaves it behind.
Spin around, spin, spin, spin.
If an engine were to backfire during the process, the crank would spin in reverse, potentially injuring the motorist whose hand was clutching the crank handle.
Stephon Marbury darted through Los Angeles traffic, past Kobe Bryant, around Shaquille O'Neal and exploded with a scissors-kick into midair, contorting his upper body to spin the reverse layup, softly, into the basket.
And if Vaughan's retirement does not tip the balance then, according to Pietersen, a hot summer will do the trick, by offering England's attack spin and reverse swing.
But he gets away with it because his controlled swagger is so effective on the court: spin moves, reverse layups, and Rucker Park-reminiscrossoversovers are all staples of Parker's game.
England bowled pretty well on a dry pitch which suited their capacity to generate spin and reverse swing, with Bresnan justifying his recall.
The economy was spinning in reverse.
Rumours of the death of the nation state, then, have proved exaggerated: globalisation is spinning into reverse.
We owe it to those taken from us too early – from young black men in Ferguson and Ohio and beyond, and certainly to those two NYPD cops in their squad car in Brooklyn and their families – to break the American cycle of violence, even when it starts spinning in reverse.
