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cattle truck

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A historical cattle truck in a museum in Wales

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Noun

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cattle truck (plural cattle trucks)

  1. (rail transport) A wagon used to transport livestock.
    Synonyms: (UK) cattle wagon, (US) cattle car
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 211:
      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.
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cattle truck (third-person singular simple present cattle trucks, present participle cattle trucking, simple past and past participle cattle trucked)

  1. (transitive) To transport on, or as if on, a cattle truck.
    • 2005 April 16, Lin, “Re: Sustainable Transport”, in uk.rec.cycling‎[1] (Usenet):
      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.
  2. (transitive, Cockney rhyming slang) To fuck (“to break, destroy”).
    Synonym: (ellipsis) cattle
    • 2002 June 12, mrlargeit, “Public Folder Store Disappeared”, in microsoft.public.exchange2000.information.store‎[2] (Usenet):
      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.
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