toboggan

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  1. noun A long, narrow, runnerless sled constructed of thin boards curled upward at the front end.
  2. intransitive verb To coast, ride, or travel on a toboggan.
  3. intransitive verb Slang To decline or fall rapidly: His good fortune has tobogganed.

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  • How goeth the jousts and   tourneys with the toboggan, and hath the cyclonic Sir Barbour wrought   much havoc with his perennial rhetoric in the midst of thee? —  Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions, v2
  • We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! —  Story of My Life
  • "But we didn't stand up and ski; we sat on the skis and used them as a toboggan," says Haueisen, who grew up in Wisconsin before moving to the Bay Area as a young teen. —  Sierra Sun - Top Stories
  • Recently the Board of Directors has signed a users agreement with Tembec, allowing the community to continue to use the recreation grounds, which includes the Fair grounds, ball diamonds, skating rink and tennis courts, as well as the toboggan hill. —  Kootenay Rockies - News
  • Too cold to toboggan, but too cabin-feverish to stay home? —  Canadian Art - Online
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  1. Canadian French tobagan, from Micmac topaghan.

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  1. Formerly also toboggin, taboggan, tarboggin; from American Indian given as otobanask (Cree), odabagan, etc., a sled.
  2. from toboggan, n.
 

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