mantrip
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “man + trip?”)
Noun edit
mantrip (plural mantrips)
- (mining) A shuttle for transporting miners down into an underground mine.
- 2015 June 20, David Segal, “The People v. the Coal Baron”, in New York Times[1]:
- His shift was over, and he was heading out on a mantrip, a type of shuttle that transports workers.
