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switchback
[ swich-bak ]
noun
- a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
- Railroads. a zigzag track arrangement for climbing a steep grade.
- British. roller coaster.
verb (used without object)
- (of a road, railroad track, etc.) to progress through a series of hairpin curves; zigzag:
The road switchbacks up the mountain.
switchback
/ ˈswɪtʃˌbæk /
noun
- a mountain road, railway, or track which rises and falls sharply many times or a sharp rise and fall on such a road, railway, or track
- another word (esp Brit) for big dipper
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Example Sentences
It looked something like a switchback railway, only that while the incline varied, all the undulations ran down hill.
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The minutes were uncomfortably long, he felt as if he were on a switchback, or in the throes of approaching sea-sickness.
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Here we abandon the switchback lane, and, climbing a wall, begin to make our way along the side of the beck.
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Of all the mountain-climbing I have ever done the switchback up to Doubtful Lake is the worst.
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It was necessary to move on up the switchback, that the next horse behind might scramble up.
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