English Dictionary

toboggan

IPA（発音記号）

/təˈbɒɡ.ən/

動詞

比喩的用法 自動詞

To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object. / (figuratively) To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.

日本語の意味

そりやトボガンなどに乗って坂を下る / 比喩的に、下降または悪化の状態に急激に進む

Let's toboggan down the snowy hill before the sun fully sets.

夕日が完全に沈む前に、雪の積もった丘をそりで滑り降りよう。

意味（1）

To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.

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.

意味（2）

(figuratively) To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.

A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse.

意味（3）

(aviation, intransitive) To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.

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.

toboggans （ present singular third-person ）

tobogganing （ participle present ）

tobogganning （ participle present ）

tobogganed （ participle past ）

tobogganed （ past ）

tobogganned （ participle past ）

tobogganned （ past ）