| 单词 | on the ghost train |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the ghost train 3. Prison slang (chiefly British). With the. The practice of moving problematic prisoners from one prison to another during the night, typically without the prisoner being forewarned; the means by which a prisoner is moved in this way. Frequently in on the ghost train. Cf. ghosting n. 4. ΚΠ 1970 T. Clayton Men in Prison i. 19 You all remember the Ghost Train? If you had a problem you put him on the ghost train to another nick. 1993 S. Livingstone & T. Owen Prison Law iii. 41 Known by prisoners as the ‘ghost train’, a ‘10/74’ was designed to transfer and segregate a supposedly ‘subversive’ prisoner. 1999 J. Arnott Long Firm v. 307 Then, about three months later, I received a letter from Durham. Harry had been moved back there on the Ghost Train. < as lemmas |
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