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cattle truck en · NOUN
Meanings
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A wagon used to transport livestock.
It would be fair to say that seats have become smaller - and an Underground manager once told me that the ideal train would have no seats, and the whole platform-side of it would roll up and down like a venetian blind. It would be a cattle truck, in other words.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 211:
Forms
Relateds
cattle trucking
Synonyms
cattle wagon · cattle car
Translations (2)
pl wagon bydlęcy (wagon used to transport livestock — see also cattle wagon) · fi karjavaunu (wagon used to transport livestock — see also cattle wagon)
cattle truck en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To transport on, or as if on, a cattle truck.
If they're all going some distance, then all the wannabee commuter sees is a procession of busses trundling past that they can't get on. OTOH you are, however, likely to be able to cram on a train and play sardines with total strangers. ¶ Neither of those experiences - hanging round a bus stop or being cattle-trucked - is one I'd want ten times a week for up to an hour at the start and end of a working day.
2005 April 16, Lin, “Re: Sustainable Transport”, in uk.rec.cycling (Usenet):
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(Cockney, slang, transitive) To fuck (“to break, destroy”).
I had set permissions on the public folders so no one could create any a while back. I set the permissions back so everyone could create a folder, but I think i might have cattle trucked the whole thing now, as the public store, and folders seem to have disappeared from exchange system manager.
2002 June 12, mrlargeit, “Public Folder Store Disappeared”, in microsoft.public.exchange2000.information.store (Usenet):
Forms
Relateds
cattle trucked
Synonyms
cattle