cattle truck

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cattle truck

noun cattle trucks · cattle-truck

  1. A 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.

    Similar: cattle wagon, cattle car

verb cattle trucks · cattle trucking · cattle trucked · cattle-truck

  1. transitive 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 be
  2. Cockney, slang, transitive To 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.

    Similar: cattle

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@misc{cattle_truck_2026,
  title = {cattle truck},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cattle%20truck},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}