| 单词 | hog train |
| 释义 | > as lemmashog train hog train n. North American (now chiefly historical) a train used to transport hogs; (slang) a train of this sort used as a mode of travel by the poor, vagrants, etc.; (hence) travel as a tramp or hobo (chiefly in on the hog train at Phrases 7). ΚΠ 1850 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 3 Dec. 8/3 The Road is in fine condition, and as soon as the ‘People's Line’, as the hog train is called, begins to run, the receipts will be very large. 1892 Daily Jrnl. (Logansport, Indiana) 24 July They made up their minds to try Elwood, but being short of funds took the ‘hog train’ method of travel and were riding between the cars. 1922 Proc. 28th Ann. Session Iowa State Bar Assoc. 68 We stopped alongside of a hog-train and were there for some little time, and I had occasion to observe the breed of hogs which you are shipping. 2006 J. Londraville & R. Londraville Most Beautiful Man in World iii. 45 The trial of getting there on a hog train warned him that his dreams of fame might have a more earthy outcome. < as lemmas |
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