rollercoastering
adjEtymology From rollercoaster + -ing.
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Figuratively Moving rapidly and unpredictably.
- Their own fortunes were so vast and so diversified that they were largely unaffected by the stock exchange's fickle rollercoastering activity.2006, Joseph Armstead, Nightflesh, page 18:
- This club was crammed full of men who'd lived through the afternoon's rollercoastering emotions.2011, Mark Fleming, Brainbomb, page 101: