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crummy
noun- a brakevan (caboose) US, 1916
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 261, 1946
- “He” the Conductor who made me ride outside the crummy. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to John Clellon Holmes, p. 407, 19 February 1953
- He stayed in New York three days and hastily made preparations to get back on the train with his railroad pass and again recross the continent, five days and five nights industy coaches and hard-bench crummies[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 308, 1957
- a truck, a boxcar or an old brakevan (caboose), converted to passenger carrying by adding wooden benches CANADA
- Loggers ride in cold and heat in old trucks or rail cars called crummies, which are “crummy.” — Vancouver Sun, p. 5/2, 30 May 1964
- The word [crummy] developed from a car on logging railways used for the same purpose. — Tom Parkin, WetCoast Words, p. 42, 1989
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