"toboggan" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /təˈbɒɡ.ən/ [UK], /təˈbɑːɡ.ən/ [US] Audio: en-us-toboggan.ogg [US], en-au-toboggan.ogg [Australia] Forms: toboggans [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒɡən Etymology: The noun is attested since 1829, the verb since 1846. Both derive from French tabaganne, which derives from an Algonquian word, probably Mi'kmaq tepaqan or Abenaki dabôgan, influenced by similar words in other Eastern Canadian Algonquian languages. The sense of "hat" is recorded since 1929 and is short for toboggan cap (1928), a cap suitable for wearing while tobogganing. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|tabaganne|}} French tabaganne, {{uder|en|alg|-}} Algonquian, {{uder|en|mic|tepaqan|}} Mi'kmaq tepaqan, {{uder|en|abe|dabôgan|}} Abenaki dabôgan, {{m|en|toboggan cap}} toboggan cap Head templates: {{en-noun}} toboggan (plural toboggans)
  1. 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. Synonyms (sled without runners): sled, sledge Translations (long sled without runners): тобоган (tobogan) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tobogan [masculine] (Catalan), 雪橇 (xuěqiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), ahkio (Finnish), pulkka (Finnish), toboggan [masculine] (French), tabaganne [masculine] (French), Toboggan [masculine] (German), tobogán (Hungarian), トボガン (tobogan) (Japanese), トボガンぞり (tobogan-zori) (Japanese), panunu (Maori), pānukunuku (Maori), zhooshkodaabaan (Ojibwe), tobogan [masculine] (Polish), sanki (Polish), tobogã [masculine] (Portuguese), тобогга́н (toboggán) [masculine] (Russian), са́ни (sáni) (english: sled) [masculine, plural] (Russian), tobogán [masculine] (Spanish), tobogan [masculine] (Welsh), sled [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-noun-dumFpcew Disambiguation of 'sled without runners': 68 25 2 4 Disambiguation of 'long sled without runners': 68 25 2 4
  2. (Canada, US) A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo. Tags: Canada, US Categories (topical): Vehicles Synonyms (sled pulled by dogs): sledge, cariole, carriole Coordinate_terms (sled pulled by dogs): dogsled Translations (sled pulled by dogs, with runners): koirareki (Finnish), reki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-noun-8JPGPJf1 Disambiguation of Vehicles: 18 40 4 16 2 12 9 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English Disambiguation of 'sled pulled by dogs': 33 58 2 8 Disambiguation of 'sled pulled by dogs': 32 59 2 7 Disambiguation of 'sled pulled by dogs, with runners': 33 59 2 6
  3. (figurative) Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-noun-0sDYx~sv
  4. (Southern US, especially South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia) A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather. Tags: Southern-US, Virginia, West Synonyms (knit cap): watch cap, beanie Translations (knit cap): pipo (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-noun-MHgbTDWb Categories (other): North Carolina English, South Carolina English, Southern US English, Virginia English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 15 6 33 1 22 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 12 5 46 1 14 9 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 15 19 6 28 3 18 11 Disambiguation of 'knit cap': 4 6 2 88 Disambiguation of 'knit cap': 4 4 2 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tobogin, toboggin Related terms: sleigh, bobsled, bobsleigh, luge, luge sled, skeleton sled

Verb

IPA: /təˈbɒɡ.ən/ [UK], /təˈbɑːɡ.ən/ [US] Audio: en-us-toboggan.ogg [US], en-au-toboggan.ogg [Australia] Forms: toboggans [present, singular, third-person], tobogganing [participle, present], tobogganning [participle, present], tobogganed [participle, past], tobogganed [past], tobogganned [participle, past], tobogganned [past]
Rhymes: -ɒɡən Etymology: The noun is attested since 1829, the verb since 1846. Both derive from French tabaganne, which derives from an Algonquian word, probably Mi'kmaq tepaqan or Abenaki dabôgan, influenced by similar words in other Eastern Canadian Algonquian languages. The sense of "hat" is recorded since 1929 and is short for toboggan cap (1928), a cap suitable for wearing while tobogganing. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|tabaganne|}} French tabaganne, {{uder|en|alg|-}} Algonquian, {{uder|en|mic|tepaqan|}} Mi'kmaq tepaqan, {{uder|en|abe|dabôgan|}} Abenaki dabôgan, {{m|en|toboggan cap}} toboggan cap Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=tobogganned|pres_ptc2=tobogganning}} toboggan (third-person singular simple present toboggans, present participle tobogganing or tobogganning, simple past and past participle tobogganed or tobogganned)
  1. To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object. Translations (to slide down a hill with a toboggan or similar): kelkkailla (Finnish), pulkkailla (Finnish), hōrua (Maori), ake (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-verb-zTUsPJr5 Disambiguation of 'to slide down a hill with a toboggan or similar': 90 3 6
  2. (figurative) To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom. Tags: figuratively Translations (figuratively: to go downhill unstoppably): syöksyä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-verb-IFanvOqW Disambiguation of 'figuratively: to go downhill unstoppably': 0 95 5
  3. (aviation, intransitive) To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Aviation
    Sense id: en-toboggan-en-verb-6jLL6vjx Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tobogin, toboggin Derived forms: power toboggan, sleboggan, toboggan cap [US], toboggan down, tobogganer, tobogganing, tobogganist, toboggan run, toboggan slide [Canadian] Related terms: sleigh, bobsled, bobsleigh, luge, sled, sledge

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          "ref": "2006, Rita Tregellas Pope, Landmark Visitors Guide Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly",
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          "text": "The steer dog next to the sleigh prevents this by immediately leading off at a sixty-degree angle from the direction the others are going, thereby compensating for the sidewise stress and keeping the toboggan in the clear until the bend has been passed.",
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          "ref": "1989, C.W. Peterson, Wake Up, Canada!: Reflections on Vital National Issues",
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          "text": "Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted.",
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          "ref": "1992, Wallace Neal Briggs, Riverside Remembered",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Dave Smith, Life's Too Short to Be an Underdog...And Other Spiritual Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog",
          "text": "If you must adorn your dog with a hat, go with a toboggan-style hat. If It was good enough for Snoopy, It Is definitely good enough for your dog.",
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          "ref": "1882, Louis Prosper Bender, Old and New Canada. 1753-1844: Historic Scenes and Social Pictures, Or, The Life of Joseph-Francois Perrault",
          "text": "Nothing could be more exciting and exhilarating than a slide, on sleigh or toboggan, from the lofty summit of the ice-mound or cone down to its base.",
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          "ref": "1884, Henry Chadwick, The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of the Play-ground, the Parlor, and the Field Adapted Especially for American Youth, G. Routledge and sons, page 201",
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          "ref": "1885, A. T. Tucker (Alfred Thomas Tucker) Wise, Alpine Winter in Its Medical Aspects: With Notes on Davos Platz, Wiesen, St. Moritz, and the Maloja",
          "text": "The toboggan may be described as a flat plank turned up at one end.",
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          "ref": "1887, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, David Kennedy, David Kennedy: The Scottish Singer : Reminiscences of His Life and Work",
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          "text": "Every half hour or so one or the other would steal off with snowshoes and toboggan to make the round of the holes, often returning with half a dozen fish that together weighed perhaps twelve pounds, perhaps twenty-four pounds[…]",
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          "ref": "2006, Rita Tregellas Pope, Landmark Visitors Guide Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly",
          "text": "Trenance Park has gardens, a toboggan run, miniature golf and the indoor delights of Water World with its tropical fun pool and flumes.",
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          "text": "The old toboggan has been laid aside, and sleighs or waggons dash along the streets.",
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        {
          "ref": "1889, John G. Donkin, Trooper and Redskin in the Far North-west: Recollections of Life in the North-west Mounted Police",
          "text": "These animals are harnessed by a padded collar to a light flat sleigh, of skins stretched across a frame of thin wood, called a toboggan.",
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          "ref": "2006, Cornelius Osgood, Winter",
          "text": "The steer dog next to the sleigh prevents this by immediately leading off at a sixty-degree angle from the direction the others are going, thereby compensating for the sidewise stress and keeping the toboggan in the clear until the bend has been passed.",
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          "ref": "1948, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Currency, on S.J. Res. 157, joint resolution to aid in protecting the Nation's economy against inflationary pressures. 80th Congress, 2nd Session July 29-August 4, 1948",
          "text": "If we were to hit the toboggan of a depression, wages would drop.",
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          "ref": "1989, C.W. Peterson, Wake Up, Canada!: Reflections on Vital National Issues",
          "text": "Farming was on “the toboggan.” New settlers who had purchased land could not meet their deferred payments.",
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          "text": "The fact that I agreed showed that there was no hope of getting off the toboggan more than momentarily.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Richard Allan (EDT) Davison, The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators",
          "text": "We all have found out that once a show goes into rehearsal, it's a toboggan slide and there's not enough time. So we had six months of preproduction meetings.",
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        "(figurative) Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "North Carolina English",
        "South Carolina English",
        "Southern US English",
        "Virginia English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, William Rush Dunton, Occupation therapy",
          "text": "Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Wallace Neal Briggs, Riverside Remembered",
          "text": "Sissy bounded back in dressed in a heavy sweater and toboggan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Dave Smith, Life's Too Short to Be an Underdog...And Other Spiritual Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog",
          "text": "If you must adorn your dog with a hat, go with a toboggan-style hat. If It was good enough for Snoopy, It Is definitely good enough for your dog.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Frances Stegall, Grass Roots: 80 Years in Bailey Co.",
          "text": "We used an old toboggan stuffed with cotton for the ball, and it served the purpose very well.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather."
      ],
      "qualifier": "especially South Carolina; North Carolina; especially South Carolina; North Carolina",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US, especially South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia) A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "Virginia",
        "West"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈbɒɡ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈbɑːɡ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒɡən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-toboggan.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/En-us-toboggan.ogg/En-us-toboggan.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/En-us-toboggan.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-toboggan.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/En-au-toboggan.ogg/En-au-toboggan.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/En-au-toboggan.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "sled without runners",
      "word": "sled"
    },
    {
      "sense": "sled without runners",
      "word": "sledge"
    },
    {
      "sense": "sled pulled by dogs",
      "word": "sledge"
    },
    {
      "sense": "sled pulled by dogs",
      "word": "cariole"
    },
    {
      "sense": "sled pulled by dogs",
      "word": "carriole"
    },
    {
      "sense": "knit cap",
      "word": "watch cap"
    },
    {
      "sense": "knit cap",
      "word": "beanie"
    },
    {
      "word": "tobogin"
    },
    {
      "word": "toboggin"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tobogan",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тобоган"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tobogan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xuěqiāo",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "雪橇"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "ahkio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "pulkka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "toboggan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tabaganne"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Toboggan"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "tobogán"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tobogan",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "トボガン"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tobogan-zori",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "トボガンぞり"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "panunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "pānukunuku"
    },
    {
      "code": "oj",
      "lang": "Ojibwe",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "zhooshkodaabaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tobogan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "word": "sanki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tobogã"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "toboggán",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тобогга́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "sled",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sáni",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "са́ни"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tobogán"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tobogan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "long sled without runners",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sled"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sled pulled by dogs, with runners",
      "word": "koirareki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sled pulled by dogs, with runners",
      "word": "reki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "knit cap",
      "word": "pipo"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "toboggan"
  ],
  "word": "toboggan"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Abenaki",
    "English terms derived from Algonquian languages",
    "English terms derived from Canadian French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Mi'kmaq",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒɡən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒɡən/3 syllables",
    "en:Vehicles"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "power toboggan"
    },
    {
      "word": "sleboggan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "toboggan cap"
    },
    {
      "word": "toboggan down"
    },
    {
      "word": "tobogganer"
    },
    {
      "word": "tobogganing"
    },
    {
      "word": "tobogganist"
    },
    {
      "word": "toboggan run"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Canadian"
      ],
      "word": "toboggan slide"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "tabaganne",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "French tabaganne",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alg",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Algonquian",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mic",
        "3": "tepaqan",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Mi'kmaq tepaqan",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "abe",
        "3": "dabôgan",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Abenaki dabôgan",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "toboggan cap"
      },
      "expansion": "toboggan cap",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The noun is attested since 1829, the verb since 1846. Both derive from French tabaganne, which derives from an Algonquian word, probably Mi'kmaq tepaqan or Abenaki dabôgan, influenced by similar words in other Eastern Canadian Algonquian languages. The sense of \"hat\" is recorded since 1929 and is short for toboggan cap (1928), a cap suitable for wearing while tobogganing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toboggans",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tobogganing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tobogganning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tobogganed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tobogganed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tobogganned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tobogganned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "tobogganned",
        "pres_ptc2": "tobogganning"
      },
      "expansion": "toboggan (third-person singular simple present toboggans, present participle tobogganing or tobogganning, simple past and past participle tobogganed or tobogganned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "to‧bog‧gan"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "sled"
    },
    {
      "word": "sledge"
    },
    {
      "word": "sleigh"
    },
    {
      "word": "bobsled"
    },
    {
      "word": "bobsleigh"
    },
    {
      "word": "luge"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) Bates, A Year in the Great Republic",
          "text": "Mr. Macaulay, the landlord, insisted upon trying to \"toboggan\" us down the mountain on the saddle cloth of one of the horses, an attempt that ended of course in disaster, for the surface was much too small for the three of us, and the snow too soft for the purpose.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Alfred Thomas Tucker Wise, Alpine winter in its medical aspects",
          "text": "The aspect of this patient was greatly changed for the better; she was able to skate, toboggan, and mount 500 feet of Maloja Pass without fatigue.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, William John Thomas, (John) Doran, Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, Notes and Queries",
          "text": "I froze my toes some years ago, while tobogganing, and was unaware of it until I took off my shoe and walked across the room, when the unusual noise on the boards attracted my attention.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Nita Hughes, The Cathar Legacy",
          "text": "The hillside, lined with a coating of wet leaves ready to toboggan her down the slope, made her grateful for a few saplings that provided handholds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "toboggan",
          "toboggan#noun"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945, US House of Representatives, 1945 extension of the Reciprocal trade agreements act: hearings before the Committee on finance, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3240, an act to extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff act of 1930, as amended, and for other purposes",
          "text": "A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Keith Dixon, Altered Life",
          "text": "I can't win, can I? You think I'm posh and my folks think I'm tobogganing down-market faster than the royal family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "go downhill",
          "go downhill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Aviation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Wings, volumes 31-33, page 11",
          "text": "Aircraft returning to refuel at about three o'clock have tobogganed down to their spats in the mud whilst early in the morning one could bounce a crowbar on the frozen ground.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, The Mobility Forum: The Journal of the Air Mobility Command, page 21",
          "text": "How did a piston engine tanker refuel a faster jet bomber? It \"tobogganed\" - the refueling connection would be made high up and then the bomber and tanker flew \"downhill\" together enabling the tanker to pick up more speed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "fly",
          "fly"
        ],
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ],
        [
          "in-flight",
          "in-flight"
        ],
        [
          "refueling",
          "refueling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation, intransitive) To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈbɒɡ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈbɑːɡ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒɡən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-toboggan.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/En-us-toboggan.ogg/En-us-toboggan.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/En-us-toboggan.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-toboggan.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/En-au-toboggan.ogg/En-au-toboggan.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/En-au-toboggan.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tobogin"
    },
    {
      "word": "toboggin"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to slide down a hill with a toboggan or similar",
      "word": "kelkkailla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to slide down a hill with a toboggan or similar",
      "word": "pulkkailla"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to slide down a hill with a toboggan or similar",
      "word": "hōrua"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to slide down a hill with a toboggan or similar",
      "word": "ake"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "figuratively: to go downhill unstoppably",
      "word": "syöksyä"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "toboggan"
  ],
  "word": "toboggan"
}

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