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gandy-dancer

gandy-dancer is the alternative spelling of gandy dancer.

Meaning of gandy dancer

Noun

gandy dancer (plural gandy dancers)

  1. (US, idiomatic) A railway laborer, especially a member of a crew which carries rails and affixes them to ties.
    • Gandy dancer—A section hand or track laborer.1929, Vernon W. Saul, “The Vocabulary of Bums”, in American Speech, volume 4, number 5, page 340

Forms of gandy-dancer

pluralgandy-dancers

Questions about gandy-dancer

What is gandy-dancer the alternative spelling of?
Gandy-dancer is the alternative spelling of gandy dancer.

Words near gandy-dancer in the dictionary

  1. gandurahs
  2. gandus
  3. Gandy
  4. gandy dancer
  5. gandy dancers
  6. gandy-dancer
  7. gandy-dancers
  8. Gandys
  9. Gandzha
  10. gane
  11. ganef

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