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railroad

Definition

  • noun: a system of tracks on which trains travel
  • noun: a permanent road having a line of 'rails' fixed to ties and laid on a roadbed and providing a track for cars or equipment drawn by locomotives or propelled by self-contained motors
  • verb: to force (something) to be officially approved or accepted without much discussion or thought
  • verb: to convict with undue haste and by means of false charges or insufficient evidence
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: railway, rail, road

Examples

  • the history of 'railroading' [=of trains, railroads, the people who work on them, etc.]

  • He worked as a 'railroader' [=a person who works for a railroad company] all his life.

  • a controversial law that is being 'railroaded through' Congress

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Jesse! No, Jesse! No, Dom, no! Call . You call ! I used to drag here back in high school. That railroad crossing up there is exactly a quarter mile away from here. On green, I'm going for it. That's not what I had in mind. You know what you're doing? I owe you a -second car. (..)
    2001 The Fast and the Furious