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El
noun
an elevated railway US, 1906
Chicago, New York and Philadelphia are major cities with an El.- Gene lived way out on the far end of the South Side, and it took him more than an hour to get home by the streetcar or the El. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 145, 1946
- [T]he so-called sophisticated set has taken over its dingy, old-fashioned saloons under the “El” with the homey Irish names[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 61, 1948
- Right up the street under the el was an all-night hash joint, and what I needed was a couple mugs of good black java to bring me around. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 6, 1950
- My Brooklyn in the dream is true, becuase I often have such dreams of the vast Brooklyn, I ride on endless els[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 417, May 1953
- He had got on the subway–there had been no subway in Chicago in the old days–and then had ridden out on the El, shooting along the express tracks, looking out at the same old deteriorating buildings of the Black Belt[.] — James T. Farrell, Kilroy was Here, p. 63, 1954
- The Third Avenue El screams above pillared, narrow cobbled streets[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 436, 1961
- The street all the way to the el station a block away had been spooked of people — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Death Wish, p. 113, 1977
- So I grab my coat and hat and walk over to the El, where I get the train which takes me to the neighborhood where he’s lived all these years[.] — Robert Campbell, Cat’s Meow, p. 21, 1988
▶ the El
the boys’ reformatory at Elmire, New York US- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 65, 1950
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