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puffing Billy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, slang) A steam locomotive engine.
    • The temple, halfway up the Matheran hills, was approached by a 'puffing billy' train on a zigzag railway from Neral, two miles from Bombay. 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 148: