crack train

noun

crack train

noun

Etymology From crack (“best, first-rate”).

1

US, Dated, Dialectal 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.

Synonyms: express train, fast train
Antonyms: local train

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