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brakie noun a brakeman on a freight train US, 1887- [I]s brakie job still open by then? — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 326, 1 October 1951
- [H]is world became a world of brakies, reefers, redballs, railroad dicks in hard-up midwest towns[.] — John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, p. 159, 1958
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 21, 1977
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