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crack train en · NOUN

Etymology

From crack (“best, first-rate”).

Meanings

  1. (US, dated, dialectal) Fastest express train between two stops.
    • 1988 Lawrence Davis, Pullman porter in the 1940s, quoted on Different Trains, by Steve Reich. The crack train from New York.

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Antonyms

local train

Synonyms

express train · fast train