Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also pull a train on) to participate in or subject someone to a gang rape.

1949		‘Hal Ellson’ Duke viii: Pull a train – a line-up on one girl.
1959		W. Brown Teen-Age Mafia 124: Maybe we’ll pull a train on this broad.
1965		C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 16: They thought I was one of the guys who had pulled a train on their sister.
1972		T.M. Kochman ‘The Kinetic Element in Black Idiom’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 163: ‘Pull a train’ (several fellows alternately engaging in the sex act with the same girl).
1997		G. Sikes 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 103: More common was the spontaneous act of gang sex: ‘pulling a train’ on a drunken girl at a party.
2008		D.R. Pollock ‘Schott’s Bridge’ in Knockemstiff 85: Porter Watson and Wimpy Miller stopped by on their way to pull a train on Geraldine Stubbs.
2011		H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] ‘Pulling a train’ [...] came from a period when men treated women like ‘broads’ or ‘gashes’. I’vew heard hobos and cons and street thugs in packs used it since the 1940s.

2. to be the victim of a gang rape.

1966		H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 201: A girl who squeals on one of the outlaws [...] can expect to be ‘turned out’, as they say, to ‘pull the Angel train.’.
1980		B. Setuke ‘Dumani’ in Mutloatse Forced Landing 66: Wives are taken [...] by these criminals and driven to shebeens and gambling-dens for a whole night’s ‘train-pulling.’ ‘Pulling the train’ means a woman being raped by a gang of hooligans.
2002		‘Teaser Pulls a Train’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 ‘Do you know what “pulling a train” means?’ ‘No.’ ‘It means a gangbang. One guy after the other fucking you until they get tired.’.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 486: I entertain the notion ay him in a cabin boy’s outfit, pulling the train up in toff class on The Freedom of Choice.
2019		M. Herron Joe Country [ebook] ‘We should invite her back here, get her to pull a train’.

3. of a woman, to have sex voluntarily with a number of partners in quick succession.

1966		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 129: It’s a lowdown shame how the bitch’ll pull her train / and give all her pussy away free.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 150: Francis Tanaguchi who was lost in the expansive bosom of Ora Lee Tingle, trying to persuade her to pull the train for a few of the choirboys.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: pull a train euph. To take turns at stirring the porridge (qv); for a group of men to all have sex with the same lady friend.
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Hollywood Fuck Pad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 228: She’s a nympho. She pulls trains for spooks.

(US black) of two men, to penetrate a woman simultaneously by the vagina and the anus.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 158: Anal intercourse with a female [...] making a sandwich or running/pulling a double train (two men engaging in simultaneous sex, vaginal and anal, with the same woman).

(orig. US) to gang rape.

1972		T.M. Kochman ‘The Kinetic Element in Black Idiom’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 163: ‘Run’ or ‘pull a train’ (several fellows alternately engaging in the sex act with the same girl).
1980		(con. 1971) W. Sherman Times Square 58: They call it ‘runnin’ the train’ [...] They gang-fuck ’em until the party’s over.
1984		C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 23: She used to be there in the school grounds at night and the guys would run trains on her.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 152: The niggers and chilichokers dragged that boy back to the showers [...] and ran a train on him all night long.
2000		F.X. Toole Rope Burns 209: Maybe me and my homeboys we run a train on Cora-Dora, choo-choo!
2001		(con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 172: ‘They run trains on them or either have the girl suck their thang’.
2008		in J. Miller Getting Played 134: A final form of sexual aggression [...] was the phenomenon of ‘running trains’ on girls. Youths used this phrase to refer to incidents that involved two or more young men engaging in penetrative sexual acts with a single young woman.
2017		L. McInerney Blood Miracles : ‘I’m going to run a fucking train on you. You’ll only die after playing bitch to half the city’.
2019		N. Walker Cherry 210: It was three guys from Second Platoon who had fucked his mom, three guys from Second Platoon who had run a train on her.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 123: [S]ick motherfuckers who like to run trains on you Black boys.

(Aus.) an itinerant who travels by freight train rather than on foot.

1920		Bundaberg Mail (Qld) 8 July 2/3: On being searched the ‘train jockey’ was found to be well off financially, and the explanation he subsequently gave to the station officials satisfied them.
1931		Dly Mercury (Qld) 8 July 2/3: Attention has of late been centred on the 1931 mode of travel, a la swagman. A few years back the art of ‘train jockey’ as he is styled, was limited to a few.
1935		Morn. Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 12 Jun. 15/4: I would like a few lines in your paper in reference to the Rockhampton police and the way they treat us as bagmen as ‘train jockeys’.
1973		(con. 1930s) F. Huelin ‘Keep Moving’ 19: He was an affable man, full of information about train times and guards and similar matters of interest to potential train-jockeys.

1. fried or stewed tomatoes.

1984		(con. WW2) T. Jones Heart of Oak [ebook] There I was to learn to yaffle train smash and pavement pounder.
1993		Aus. Word Map 🌐 train smash [...] ‘Train smash was used in the navy at one stage to describe tomato au gratin or tomato au granville as it was also known’.

2. (Aus.) a stew or similar concoction created from random ingredients.

1993

Aus. Word Map 🌐 train smash. 1. any of various concoctions or stews hastily thrown together for a meal, especially with eggs, tomato, onion, and, tomato sauce. 2. tomato sauce [...] [Riverina informant] B‘ubble & squeak with sausages: “You can enquire if we are having "train smash" for breakfast”’.

an obsessive, one who specializes in the collection of trivia, the knowledge of minutiae etc.

2000

Indep. Rev. 12 Jan. 8: They used to be called Trekkies, until they decided it was a name with trainspotterish connotations.

1. to go very fast.

1957

‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 105: He said they were ‘goin’ like a train on Bill’s job.’.

2. of a woman, to be a very enthusiastic sexual partner [go v. (1b)].

1984		(con. 1920s) C. Ramsden View from Primrose Hill 129: She does twenty miles to the gallon, / And she don’t cost much to board; / She may be plain, but she goes like a train. / Illustrious Florrie Forde.
2003		A. Beard Going the Distance 134: Terry goes, I ’eard she goes like a train. And they both walk off, falling over each other in hysterics.