DCHP-2

autoboggan [< auto + toboggan] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

  a small over-snow vehicle equipped with skis at the front and powered by a motor driving a treaded endless track. See picture at motor toboggan.

  See also: motor toboggan  

  • 1964  . . . instead of using dog teams many Eskimos travel by autoboggan.
  • 1964  [Caption] Ditch duster is mounted on a toboggan and pulled by a gasoline-powered sled known as an autoboggan.