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What (who) is switchback - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Switchback (disambiguation); Switchbacks; Switch back; Switch backs; Switch-back; Switch-backs; Switchback (song)
switchback
(switchbacks)
1.
A switchback is a road which rises and falls sharply many times, or a sharp rise and fall in a road. (BRIT)
...a dizzy bus ride over a switchback road.
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2.
A switchback is a road which goes up a steep hill in a series of sharp bends, or a sharp bend in a road. (AM)
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switchback
¦ noun
1. Brit. a road, railway, etc. with alternate sharp ascents and descents.
a roller coaster.
2. N. Amer. a hairpin bend.
Switchback (Celldweller song)
2004 SINGLE BY CELLDWELLER
Switchback (Celldweller); Switchback (Klayton song)
"Switchback" is a song by the American electronic rock project Celldweller, released in 2003 on the self-titled debut album. Like other Celldweller tracks, "Switchback" has been licensed for media usage.
Examples of use of switchback
1. Instead of the mountain switchback ahead of him, the driver sees only an open highway.
2. I heard Steve 100 meters up on the next switchback above me.
3. These tractors navigate the debris amid what remains of the switchback roads and tracks.
4. Coney Island also gave America its first roller coaster in 1884, the Switchback Railway, followed in the next decades by amusements like the Steeplechase and Parachute Jump.
5. Others can‘t find enough superlatives to describe the awesomeness of an above–the–clouds sunrise followed by a 38–mile, switchback–filled bicycle descent of Haleakala volcano.