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TOBOGGAN

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to·bog·gan

   [tuh-bog-uhn]
noun
1.
a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled made of a thin board curved upward and backward at the front, often with low handrails on the sides, used especially in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.
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verb (used without object)
2.
to use, or coast on, a toboggan.
3.
to fall rapidly, as prices or one's fortune.

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Origin:
1820–30; < Maliseet-Passamaquoddy tʰapákən, Micmac topaĝan (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *weta·pye·- to drag a cord + *-kan- instrument for)

Related forms
to·bog·gan·er, to·bog·gan·ist, noun
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Example Sentences
  • Skiers lucky enough to find a room in town that weekend will find everybody talking toboggan.
  • On land, they waddle and toboggan across the ice-sliding on their bellies, and propelling themselves with their flippers.
  • Today locals still use the old pathways to ski or toboggan down the slope.
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toboggan (təˈbɒɡən)
 
—n
1.  a light wooden frame on runners used for sliding over snow and ice
2.  a long narrow sledge made of a thin board curved upwards and backwards at the front
 
—vb , -gans, -ganing, -ganed
3.  (intr) to ride on a toboggan
 
[C19: from Canadian French, from Algonquian; related to Abnaki udābāgan]
 
to'bogganer
 
—n
 
to'bogganist
 
—n

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toboggan
"long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian Fr. tabagane, from Algonquian (probably Micmac) tobakun "a sled." The verb is recorded from 1846. As Amer.Eng. colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one worse such a cap while
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tobogganing.
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