milk train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milk train
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Able Actor-Director Vaughan left Broadway 15 years ago with egocentrifugal force, but this account of his subsequent travels and travails has the prose urgency of a milk train.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around the Yankees, .180 hitters usually catch the first milk train back to the farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train.
From Time Magazine Archive
She used to get up at five or six in the morning to catch the milk train and loved it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter also had to go there this morning, by the earliest train—a milk train or an egg train or something, and there won't be any news worth having until to-morrow, I suppose.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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