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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 esp. in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.
–verb (used without object)
2. to use, or coast on, a toboggan.
3. to fall rapidly, as prices or one's fortune.

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


to⋅bog⋅gan⋅er, to⋅bog⋅gan⋅ist, noun
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to·bog·gan   (tə-bŏg'ən)   
n.  A long, narrow, runnerless sled constructed of thin boards curled upward at the front end.
intr.v.   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.


[Canadian French tobagan, from Micmac topaghan.]
to·bog'gan·er, to·bog'gan·ist n.
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