toboggan
IPA: tʌbˈɑgʌn
noun
- A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
- (Canada, US) A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
- (figurative) Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
- (Southern US, especially South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia) A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
verb
- To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.
- (figurative) To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
- (aviation, intransitive) To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.
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Examples of "toboggan" in Sentences
- Send us your toboggan photos
- The toboggan is a popular car during the winter.
- The bottom of a toboggan rides directly on the snow.
- People rode a toboggan instead of a car in the past.
- aka toboggan accident Yes... well, near one at least.
- This is one of the few specific references for toboggan.
- There is an abandoned toboggan run outside that was used in the 1930s.
- It was impossible to stop on the gravelled toboggan on which we'd embarked.
- The first commercially successful snowmobile was the Eliason Motor Toboggan.
- In the final strip, Calvin and Hobbes depart on their toboggan to go exploring.
- Indeed the toboggan was a real hill of ice now, though the frozen covering was thin.
- Once inside some fire extinguishers were emptied and an antique sled was removed and used to toboggan.
- (Er, that's the "toboggan" CAP and not the toboggan SLED for some of our most welcomed East Tennessee transplants.)
- We each of us had manufactured a toboggan, which is a small sleigh composed of a long thin slip of willow wood turned up in front.
- Canada's next gold medal could be in the sport, also known as toboggan, and it could be around the neck of an Alberta cowgirl on Friday.
- After the accident, the ski patrol was called, and she was taken off the hill in a toboggan, which is standard protocol, according to reports.
- An eight-paddle blower dispenses the material through a 300° swivel chute that can also place fodder along a feed barrier by directing on to the sloping 'toboggan' slide.
- To accommodate the two planes 'difference in speed, the pilots had to use a complicated maneuver called a toboggan in order to get the tanker and the transport plane close enough to refuel.
- In soft snow on a level surface like the river bed or through the Flat country, generally, the toboggan is much the more convenient vehicle, for it rides over the snow instead of ploughing through it, but on hard snow anywhere or on grades the toboggan is a nuisance.