toboggan

(tə bägən)

noun

a long, narrow, flat sled without runners, made of thin boards curved back at the front end and often having side rails: often used for the sport of coasting down a prepared slope or chute

Origin: CdnFr tabagan, tobagan < an Algonquian language: cf. Micmac topaĝan

intransitive verb

  1. to coast, travel, etc. on a toboggan
  2. to decline rapidly: prices tobogganed

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See toboggan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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

Origin:

Origin: Canadian French tobagan

Origin: , from Micmac topaghan

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Related Forms:

  • to·bogˈgan·er, to·bogˈgan·ist noun

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