crack train
English edit
Etymology edit
From crack (“best, first-rate”).
Noun edit
crack train (plural crack trains)
- (US, dialect, dated) 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.
- 1988 Lawrence Davis, Pullman porter in the 1940s, quoted on Different Trains, by Steve Reich.
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References edit
- Liner notes to Different Trains, by Steve Reich, 1988.