railroad
Meanings
noun
- A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
- A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
verb
- To transport via railroad.
- To operate a railroad.
- To work for a railroad.
- To travel by railroad.
- To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
- To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
- To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
name
- A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, so-named for the Northern Central Railway.
- A township in Starke County, Indiana, United States.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From rail + road.
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