toboggan
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1. toboggan - Noun
2. toboggan - Verb
Meaning
A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
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Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
One day it was lies, lies, lies, real old-school Saigon-style lies about how everything's fine...and then wham, we take Mazar-i-Sharif and it's a toboggan ride to Kabul.
A 1912 issue of PG&E magazine mentions seven toboggan slides, 510 private dressing rooms and a 3,700-seat amphitheatre.
It turned up at the top of a narrow chute in the French Alps, below a cornice on the Beartooth Pass, halfway down an icy headwall with a loaded toboggan behind me.
One for the big kids out there this winter, this well-made steel toboggan is a must for mums and dads who want to get in on the action with its 100kg max weight.
Does it matter that Sayner, Wisconsin, is the birthplace of the snowmobile, or snow toboggan as it was called, when you roll through as a cyclist?