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yard bull; yard dick
noun
a railway detective US- “Yard bulls,” Lucky whispered. “They’re checking the cars.” — Hal Ellson, Tomboy, p. 150, 1950
- A friendly switchman told me I’d better not try to get on it as there was a yard bull at the crossing with a big flashlight who would see if anybody was riding away on it and would phone ahead of Watsonville to have them thrown off. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 92, 1958
- If a cop hustled him off, he hustled, and disappeared, and if yard dicks were around in big-city yards when a freight was pulling out, chances are they never got a sight of the little man hiding in the weeds[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 7, 1958
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