upalator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Humorous; Informal

"One of my children solved that one 25 years ago when he was little more than a toddler. As we were walking through a department store he told me he wanted to ride the “upalator,” but that the “downalator” was too scary for him."

Blend of up + escalator.

upalators (plural)

downalator

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