switchbacky

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From switchback +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

switchbacky

  1. (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.