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noun
1.
a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used especially in Europe.
verb (used without object)
2.
to go or race on a luge: to luge at nearly 70 miles per hour.
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Luge
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Origin:
1900–05; < dialectal French
1900–05; < dialectal French
Related forms
lug·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
luge
1905, from Fr. luge "small coasting sled," from Savoy dial., from M.L. sludia "sled" (9c.), perhaps from a Gaulish word from the same root as Eng. sled, slide.
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