switchbacky
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From switchback + -y.
Adjective
[edit]switchbacky
- (informal) In the nature of a switchback.
- 1939 November, Kenneth H. Leech, “Some Locomotive Reminiscences of a Minor Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 339:
- Four miles of switchbacky road, and then a restriction of 40 m.p.h. between East Ham and Barking followed.