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Orient Express noun- any route used to smuggle opiates from Southeast Asia to Europe, especially via Amsterdam US
An allusion to the famed Paris-to-Istanbul train. - — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 108, 1982
- the #7 subway line to Flushing, Queens, New York US
An allusion to the large number of Asian-Americans who commute on this line. - — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 237, 1997
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