| 单词 | side-door pullman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasside-door Pullman side-door Pullman n. North American slang (among hobos) an enclosed railway freight car with sliding doors on the sides; a boxcar. [ < side door n. + Pullman n., with ironic allusion to the level of comfort afforded by such wagons when used as an illicit form of passenger transport or shelter.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > closed boxcar1831 van1837 house car1838 side-door Pullman1887 1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus xvii. 237 When the engine..started out, I lighted a match and took a look at my..travelling carriage, or ‘side-door Pullman’, as the ‘tramps’..facetiously call them. 1918 R. W. Lardner Treat 'em Rough 10 If they didn't have all the luck in the world they would be rideing [sic] around the country in a side door Pullman with all their baggage on. 1976 S. Hayden Voyage 227 Light out for..the freight yards in search of a side-door pullman. 2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Aug. This is the hobo ‘jungle’, the name the men who ride the ‘sidedoor Pullmans’ (box cars) give to their gathering places, usually near railway tracks. < as lemmas |
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