milk train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milk train
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
Once a student did fall asleep�after having taken the milk train in from Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The principal border-crossing point for the region is Suifenhe, five hours by the daily milk train from Mudanjiang, near the Ussuri River, scene of some of the fiercest fighting in 1969.
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
But then he would be an hour over his leave in getting back to camp late to-night on a milk train.
From Tom Slade with the Colors by Clarity, Thomas
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