ALL meanings of roller-coaster
roll·er-coast·er
R r - verb without object roller-coaster to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves. 1
- verb without object roller-coaster to experience a period of prosperity, happiness, security, or the like, followed by a contrasting period of economic depression, despair, or the like: The economy was roller-coastering throughout most of the decade. 1
- adjective roller-coaster of, relating to, or characteristic of a roller coaster. 1
- adjective roller-coaster resembling the progress of a ride on a roller coaster in sudden extreme changeableness. 1
- noun roller-coaster a small gravity railroad, especially in an amusement park, having a train with open cars that moves along a high, sharply winding trestle built with steep inclines that produce sudden, speedy plunges for thrill-seeking passengers. 1
- noun roller-coaster a car or train of cars for such a railroad. 1
- noun roller-coaster any phenomenon, period, or experience of persistent or violent ups and downs, as one fluctuating between prosperity and recession or elation and despair. 1
- countable noun roller-coaster A roller-coaster is a small railway at a fair that goes up and down steep slopes fast and that people ride on for pleasure or excitement. 0
- countable noun roller-coaster If you say that someone or something is on a roller coaster, you mean that they go through many sudden or extreme changes in a short time. 0
- noun roller-coaster (in amusement parks) a narrow railway with open carriages that run swiftly over a route of sharp curves and steep inclines 0
- noun roller-coaster a period characterized by many sudden or extreme changes in a short time 0
- noun roller-coaster an amusement ride in which small, open cars move on tracks that dip and curve sharply 0
- noun roller-coaster something, as a situation, relationship, or series of events, characterized by frequent abrupt and unpredictable change 0