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ride the rods en · VERB
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(US, slang) To travel illicitly by clinging to the supporting rods under a freight train.
And a dangerous extracurricular activity had helped turn his muscles to iron: he “rode the rods” with other boys, clinging to the underframework of Union Pacific freight cars rumbling through Abilene.
1970, Colonel Red Reeder, Dinosaurs A to Z, published 2008:I nearly ran right into one jabbing his shotgun underneath the car, checking to see if somebody was under there riding the rods.
2007, Rilla Askew, Harpsong:
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