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- noun Alternative spelling of
rollercoaster .
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Examples
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His symptoms worsened - headaches, spatial and balance problems, fogginess, in what Crosby would term a "roller-coaster" experience.
NYT > Home Page By JEFF Z. KLEIN 2011
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Your life will be on a never-ending roller-coaster ride to nowhere—with your feelings either lifting you up or bringing you down, imprisoning you to a life of little consequence.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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The result is roller-coaster revenue, which gets spent at the top, then the shortfall is borrowed at the bottom.
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The roller-coaster in particular -- indoors and kind mealy-mouthed as it was -- made me forget that I'm supposed to be a cynical recovering alcoholic.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Three: Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Paul Carr 2011
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One of the gripping stories of this crisis has been the roller-coaster fortunes of the ECB boss, Jean-Claude Trichet.
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It was always an up and down, roller-coaster kind of thing.
Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011
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In years when it's mostly been about scenery-chewing, King conveys strength, confidence and compassion through restraint, even during the roller-coaster year Detective Lydia Adams had.
Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Supporting Actress in a Drama 2011
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The explosive bus brawl proves to be the latest must-watch chapter in their roller-coaster ride of a frenmity.
Top Moments: Idol Flirts with Disaster, Jersey Shore Pops a Squat 2011
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Lucy heard a collective gasp rise from the group, as if they were all on a roller-coaster ride together and their car had taken a sudden dip.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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As any fan will attest, the life of the series has been an emotional roller-coaster ride.
‘Arrested Development’ Movie Will Shoot This Year, Says Will Arnett » MTV Movies Blog 2010
oroboros commented on the word roller-coaster
In wordplay, a word with letters that alternate between going forward and backward in the alphabet: general --> start with 'g'; back to 'e'; forward to 'n'; back to 'e'; forward to 'r'; back to 'a'; forward to 'l'.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay
May 23, 2008