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toboggan definition

to·bog·gan (tə bäg′ən)

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

Etymology: 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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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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