Sekirov Dictionary

toboggan

UK /təˈbɒɡ.ən/US /təˈbɑːɡ.ən/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 5

noun4

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A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
- Toboggan has not yet found its Way into the dictionaries, and there are other ways of spelling it. — 1877
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(US, Canada) A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
- The old toboggan has been laid aside, and sleighs or waggons dash along the streets. — 1847
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(Southern-US) A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
- Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted. — 1915
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(figurative) Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
- McGinnity began to hit the toboggan in 1906, after he had pitched his arm off the previous year. Last season his efforts at times were painful. — 1907

verb3

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To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.
- The aspect of this patient was greatly changed for the better; she was able to skate, toboggan, and mount 500 feet of Maloja Pass without fatigue. — 1888
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(figurative) To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
- A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse. — 1945
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To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.
- Aircraft returning to refuel at about three o'clock have tobogganed down to their spats in the mud whilst early in the morning one could bounce a crowbar on the frozen ground. — 1961

forms

tobogganed · tobogganned · tobogganing · tobogganning · toboggans

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