Literal meanings:
1. N., A roadway paved with a track made of rails, upon which locomotives push or pull a train of cars or trailers carrying people or freight.
2. Adj., Pertaining to such a roadway or the trains that travel upon it.
3. N., The industry of transporting people or freight by rail, or one or more of the companies within that industry.
4. Adj., Pertaining to that industry.
5. V., Transport upon a railroad.
Slang meanings:
1. V., to coerce, trick, or seduce others into a course of action that they would not otherwise choose. This includes, but is not limited to, specifically sexual situations.
2. N., Eleven, as if the two parallel numerals were the rails of a railroad track.
Literal: Southern Pacific (3) railroad's old (2) railroad cars can still be found along abandoned stretches of (1) railroad, because the industry can't be bothered to (5) railroad them to (4) railroad stations.
Slang:
1. Popular culture isn't going to be railroaded into adopting a narrow-mindedly specific sexual situation as the definition of railroad simply because someone described his favorite life experience as an UrbanDictionary definition.
2. We use the 802-railroad-G wireless protocol. (See WAP and 802.11g.)
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A term describing the process of forcing the player characters in a Role-Playing Game to complete a certain task before continuing the adventure.
"The GM has subtely instructed us to go to this town before we can finish the damn story. I bet he received a Masters Degree in Railroading."
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The act of being stopped by a train, usually when in a hurry. Can contain the act of the train stopping, going backwards, going forward again, and then slowly rolling away after 20 minutes of anger.
Terre Haute is a terrible town because you cannot go from one side of the city to the other without getting railroaded.
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When you start a conversation with someone and they talk non-stop, asking questions but talking over your answers. Eventually, you have to ask to stop them repeatedly to stop just to be able to respond.
"So I answered the phone and this bitch immediately railroaded me with her 99 problems. I told her to shut the fuck up - and listen to me."
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To be stopped by a train.
A common slang term used in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Person 1: Why are you late?
Person 2: Weβre in Terre Haute, I got railroaded! What else would it be?
when many boys have sex or sexual relations with one girl one after another.
Tanya was railroaded by the whole football team after we won the game.
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