vertigo
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- n a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
- Most often it is employed to generate vertigo, as when a trapeze artist dangles above a crowd, or when two men have a highball-to-highball confrontation with a swiveling stripper.
- Mad Money with Jim Cramer is a raucous investor show that features vertigo-inducing camera movement and the blustery, hyperkinetic Cramer bouncing around the set howling stock .
- The last time we had this feeling of financial vertigo was when the Internet bubble popped seven years ago.