trainload
English
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Noun
trainload (plural trainloads)
- The amount that can be transported by a train.
- (by extension) A large amount.
- You just bought yourself a trainload of trouble. I think you're now in over your head.
- 1926, Gerald William Bullett, The Baker's Cart: And Other Tales, page 164:
- A shudder ran through Mr. Binnacle. Better a whole trainload of invigilators than this grotesque and solitary persecutor!
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