📖 coast

noun

1. the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it“his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill”
2. the area within view“the coast is clear”
3. a slope down which sleds may coast“when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course”
4. the shore of a sea or ocean

See also: glideslidesea-coastseacoastseashore

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