Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steep decline down which tobogganers slide.
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Examples
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The grounds of the exhibition were also an attraction to thousands, the toboggan-slide and the switch railway being extremely popular as long as light lasted.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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The grounds of the exhibition were also an attraction to thousands, the toboggan-slide and the switch railway being extremely popular as long as light lasted.
America Comes to London: Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show 2008
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So here we are with a market on a several-day toboggan-slide that looks very likely to continue.
Time To Buy Volatility, Sell Stocks Peter Way 2006
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Things were bound to happen so, for persons of her type who have once entered upon that road descend it with ever-increasing rapidity, even as a sledge descends a toboggan-slide.
The Gambler 2003
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In my turn I let myself go: it was a regular toboggan-slide.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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I accepted this account of what was in fact absence without leave, and he then suggested that if I had nothing else on hand I might help him in making a toboggan-slide.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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It is worse there than it is to the boy on the toboggan-slide, by a long lot.
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Sandy's were the arms that lifted the children gently into the enormous sack held open by Noddy and Blink, and placed them at the top of the toboggan-slide -- but they were feeling too curiously tired and sleepy to understand exactly what was happening.
The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921
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Much excited, they crowded round the open door in the side of the big rock and peered down into what seemed to be a kind of dark well with a toboggan-slide descending into it.
The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921
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He was going to make a toboggan-slide down the cleared side of the mountain; he was going to skate on the pond above the beaver dam, and learn to skee, and a crowd of other jolly things.
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