Usually means: Diverting conversation from its topic.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. derailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. derailing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. derailing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Derailing, derailing: Wordnik
  5. derailing: Wiktionary
  6. Derailing, derailing: Dictionary.com
  7. derailing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Derailing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Derailing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Derailing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. derailing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. derailing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. derailing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derailing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derailing: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derailing: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The act by which something is derailed.

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