Usually means: Road zigzags up steep incline.
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  1. switchback: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. switchback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. switchback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. switchback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Switchback, switchback: Wordnik
  6. switchback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. switchback: Wiktionary
  8. switchback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. switchback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. switchback: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. switchback: Dictionary.com
  12. Switchback (CBC), Switchback (Celldweller song), Switchback (TV series), Switchback (band), Switchback (film), Switchback (rollercoaster), Switchback, The Switchback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. switchback: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Switchback (disambiguation), switchback: Encyclopedia

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noun:  (rail transport)
noun:  A railway track on a steep slope in a zigzag formation, in which a train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.
noun:  A railway track on which there are steep ascents and descents, a train moving partially or fully by the force of gravity using the momentum generated when descending to travel up an ascending part of the track; especially (British, dated), such a track built for fun rides at an amusement park; a type of rollercoaster.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (aviation) A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.
noun:  (chiefly British) A path or road having a series of steep ascents and descents.
noun:  (chiefly Canada, US, road transport) A sharp bend in a path or road which causes a traveller to almost reverse their direction of travel, especially one of a series of such bends on an incline; a hairpin bend; also a path or road having such a series of bends.
verb:  (intransitive) To take a zigzag course or path.

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