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    [Noun]  | "rail*road" | \ ˈrāl-ˌrōd \


    1: 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; also : such a road and its assets constituting a single property


    Origin: 1757 ;

    [Noun]  | "railroad flat" 


    1: an apartment having a series of narrow rooms arranged in line


    Origin: 1909 ;

    [Noun]  | "railroad worm" 


    1: apple maggot

    2: the larva or wingless female of any of several South American beetles (genus Phrixothrix of the family Cantharidae)


    Origin: circa 1890 ;

    [Noun]  | "railroad bridge" 


    1: a bridge for trains

    [Noun]  | "railroad crossing" 


    1: a place where a road crosses railroad tracks

    [Noun]  | "Underground Railroad" 


    1: a system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the U.S. before 1863 by which people escaping enslavement were secretly helped to reach the North or Canada


    Origin: 1842 ;

    [Verb]  | "railroad" 


    1: to convict with undue haste and by means of false charges or insufficient evidence

    2: to push through hastily or without due consideration

    3: to transport by railroad


    Origin: 1829 ;

    [Noun]  | "railroad" 


    1: a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel;


      * e.g., " ... that railroad hasn't been used for passenger trains for decades "



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    [Noun]  | "railroad flat" 


    [Noun]  | "elevated railroad" 


    1: as in el, elevated;


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     [ "railroad" ]

    1: "To railroad" means to rig a situation such that events can only play out in a particular manner, or to a particular end. When applied to a trial, it means to manipulate the judicial system such that a defendant is virtually guaranteed a conviction. The metaphor derives from the nature of a railroad track, which does not offer a train the ability to choose its path of travel.

      * e.g.,  ... "The lead prosecutor railroaded Eddy into a first-degree murder conviction: she relied heavily on the testimony of unqualified experts." "If you are hosting a murder-mystery party, avoid railroading your guests into quickly solving the case. Give them freedom to pursue tangents in the storyline they find interesting." 

     [ "railroad" ]

    1:  to get someone unjustly convicted

      * e.g.,  ... I think he wanted to railroad congress. 


     [ "railroad" ]

    2:  force a resolution quickly


     [ "railroad" ]

    3:  to coerce someone into doing something they would not otherwise do

     [ "railroad" ]

    1: Literal meanings:

      * e.g.,  ... Literal: Southern Pacific (3) railroad's old (2) railroad cars can still be found along abandoned stretches of (1) railroad, because the industry can't be bothered to (5) railroad them to (4) railroad stations. 


     [ "railroad" ]

    2:  N., A roadway paved with a track made of rails, upon which locomotives push or pull a train of cars or trailers carrying people or freight.

      * e.g.,  ... Slang: 


     [ "railroad" ]

    3:  Adj., Pertaining to such a roadway or the trains that travel upon it.

      * e.g.,  ...  Popular culture isn't going to be railroaded into adopting a narrow-mindedly specific sexual situation as the definition of railroad simply because someone described his favorite life experience as an UrbanDictionary definition. 


     [ "railroad" ]

    4:  N., The industry of transporting people or freight by rail, or one or more of the companies within that industry.

      * e.g.,  ...  We use the 802-railroad-G wireless protocol. (See WAP and 8011g.) 


     [ "railroad" ]

    5:  Adj., Pertaining to that industry.


     [ "railroad" ]

    6:  V., Transport upon a railroad.


     [ "railroad" ]

    7: Slang meanings:


     [ "railroad" ]

    8:  V., to coerce, trick, or seduce others into a course of action that they would not otherwise choose. This includes, but is not limited to, specifically sexual situations.


     [ "railroad" ]

    9:  N., Eleven, as if the two parallel numerals were the rails of a railroad track.

     [ "railroad" ]

    1: when many boys have sex or sexual relations with one girl one after another.

      * e.g.,  ... Tanya was railroaded by the whole football team after we won the game. 

     [ "railroad" ]

    1: A very dirty,hick infested, small town next to Shrewsbury PA. This town apparently has/had a mayor. It is unknown whether the mayor is still alive. It is believed to be Capt.Bob from the local crab store.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, I met this girl from Railroad! 

     [ "railroad" ]

    1: to snort the fumes of a line of heated crystal meth

      * e.g.,  ... "Last night I did a railroad... I'm still fucked up." 

     [ "railroaded" ]

    1: The act of limiting ones options to a single track, irregardless of other options; grabbed by the proverbial balls and yanked towards a single destination.

      * e.g.,  ... "She railroaded me into this marriage by getting pregnant." "I was railroaded by my in-laws into this vacation." 

     [ "railroading" ]

    1: In gaming, the act of forcing a player to "choose to" do something they don't really want to in order to advance the plot according to the wishes or designs of the GM. Thus, the player feels like they're being moved through a world (or plot) as if on train tracks, without any choice on where to go.

      * e.g.,  ... "So we have to search the lower dungeon to find the key, despite the fact that this door is rotten and my character has 19 strength? Stop railroading us!" 

     [ "Railroad" ]

    1: Supported 5million jobs and generated 33million dollars

      * e.g.,  ... That railroad is expensive 

     [ "railroading" ]

    1: A term describing the process of forcing the player characters in a Role-Playing Game to complete a certain task before continuing the adventure.

      * e.g.,  ... "The GM has subtely instructed us to go to this town before we can finish the damn story. I bet he received a Masters Degree in Railroading." 

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