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gandy dancer
noun- a railway track worker US, 1918
Ramon Adams asserts in The Language of the Railroader that he was “so called from the Gandy Manufacturing Company of Chicago, which made many of the tools used by the section gangs”. - — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 263, 1946
- A few yards down from me, on the inside of the marshaling grounds, were a bunch of railroad men, a bit above the gandy-dancer class (they were engine drivers and coal heavers and points men). — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 144, 1961
- I had worked that winter in the mountains of Mofo, Georgia, slugging it out as a gandy dancer, a man who pounds twelve-inch spikes with a fifteen-pound sledge. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 22, 1973
- a road worker US
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 17, 1976
- in trucking, a tractor trailer that weaves back and forth on the road US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 69, 1971
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