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noun
A spinning top of a shape with counterintuitive behavior: generally mushroomlike or spherical, with a rounded head and a short stem; when spun head-down on a smooth, flat surface, it inverts its attitude so that it spins head-up, on the tip of the stem, until it loses momentum and falls over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Coined by Danish engineer Werner Østberg in the 1950s.
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