roller coaster
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- noun A steep, sharply curving elevated railway with small open passenger cars that is operated at high speeds as a ride, especially in an amusement park.
- noun An action, event, or experience marked by abrupt, extreme changes in circumstance, quality, or behavior: "the demographic roller coaster caused by the baby boom” (American Demographics).
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- The Sojourner Truth was a great ride, even in the Bering Sea, also known as the Birthplace of Winds, where boxcar lows beginning in Kamchatka regularly turned it into a roller coaster for every ship within five hundred miles. — Blindfold Game
- As a boy in New Orleans, he had spent more than a few happy hours at Lake Ponchartrain, back when the Zephyr was still the scariest roller coaster in the country. — F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
- I was on a roller coaster that was about to jump the tracks when Ripinsky decided to bail out That was around nineteen eighty He nodded. — Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
- We rode a modified roller coaster and screamed and held on to each other. — VC Andrews - Broken Wings
- Overhead, a roller coaster swooshed down like an avalanche, excited screams and laughter tumbling after like loose scree. — Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
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