switchback

  1. Noun.  A zigzag path, road or railway track; especially a railway track in which the train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.
  2. Noun.  A hairpin bend.
  3. Noun.  (dated, UK) A roller coaster.
  4. Verb.  (context, of a path etc) To zigzag.

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