| 单词 | train jumper |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrain jumper train jumper n. originally U.S. (a) a person who jumps on to or from a (moving) train; (b) a person who boards a train illegally. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > traveller by rail > types of commutation passenger1856 commuter1865 train jumper1879 tube traveller1903 rod-rider1904 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by rail > non-payment of > one who train jumper1879 1879 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 15 May 5/1 A naughty but plucky little train-jumper lost a foot in Newark Valley... He attempted to jump on a freight train. 1882 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 2 May The result was a most interesting scrimmage between a very slim conductor and a very fat train-jumper. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 June 482/3 Setting out on his trek across the continent,..as hobo, ‘train jumper’,..and cook in a Great Lakes freighter. 1954 Boston Daily Globe 4 Jan. 1/7 (headline) Train jumper turns up in Berlin... Pvt Lowell jumped out of the train taking him to prison. 1996 D. T. Courtwright Violent Land (2001) ix. 178 Train jumpers rifled crates and boxes looking for portable or edible objects. 2010 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (Nexis) 13 Dec. (headline) Soldiers may have saved life of train jumper... Man who jumped from a moving commuter train in Ayer last week survives. < as lemmas |
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