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gandy dancers

gandy dancers is the plural 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

Questions about gandy dancers

What is gandy dancers the plural of?
Gandy dancers is the plural of gandy dancer.

Words near gandy dancers in the dictionary

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

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