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cattle car

noun

  1. Railroads. stock car ( def 2 ).
  2. Slang. a railroad passenger car providing little comfort and few amenities.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cattle car1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Example Sentences

In 1944, as the Red Army advanced, the family once more fled west, this time in a railroad cattle car.

She refers to the cattle car that transported prisoners to the camps.

Some people who had flown in this same plane previously talked of it being as decrepit as a cattle car.

A steer, traveling for days in a crowded cattle-car, moreover, had a way of shrinking ten per cent in weight.

They are then made to walk up an incline with high railings ending at the open doors of a cattle car.

A "cousin" from the North had just arrived, transported South in a cattle car filled with other celestials.

She found her purse and sent a liberal donation to celestials lately en route in the cattle car.

If you dare to stop with that ball I'll ship you back to the lumber camp in a cattle car.

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