cattle truck

cattle trucknoun

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  rail-transportrailwaystransportA wagon used to transport livestock.

  • It would be fair to say that seats have become smaller - and an Underground manager once told me that the ideal train would have no seats, and the whole platform-side of it would roll up and down like a venetian blind. It would be a cattle truck, in other words.

cattle truckverb

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  To transport on, or as if on, a cattle truck.

  • If they're all going some distance, then all the wannabee commuter sees is a procession of busses trundling past that they can't get on. OTOH you are, however, likely to be able to cram on a train and play sardines with total strangers. ¶ Neither of those experiences - hanging round a bus stop or being cattle-trucked - is one I'd want ten times a week for up to an hour at the start and end of a working day.
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  slangTo fuck (“to break, destroy”).

  • I had set permissions on the public folders so no one could create any a while back. I set the permissions back so everyone could create a folder, but I think i might have cattle trucked the whole thing now, as the public store, and folders seem to have disappeared from exchange system manager.