switchbacky

adj

switchbacky

adj

Etymology From switchback + -y.

1

Informal In the nature of a switchback.

  • Four miles of switchbacky road, and then a restriction of 40 m.p.h. between East Ham and Barking followed.1939 November, Kenneth H. Leech, “Some Locomotive Reminiscences of a Minor Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 339:

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