roller coaster

Questions about roller coaster

What does roller coaster mean?

roller coaster means "anything characterized by abrupt and extreme changes (especially up and down)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for roller coaster?

Close synonyms include big dipper, chute-the-chute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roller coaster a common word?

roller coaster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.