Definition of: toboggan

(tə·bog′ən) noun
1. A light sledlike vehicle, consisting of a long thin board or boards curved upward at the forward end: used for transporting goods or coasting, especially on prepared slides.
2. A luge.
—v.i.
1. To coast on a toboggan.
2. To move downward swiftly: Wheat prices tobogganed. [<dial. F (Canadian) tabagan a sleigh <Algonquian. Cf. Micmac tobākun.]
—to·bog′gan·er, to·bog′gan·ist noun