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slam-door

slam-door adjective: applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.

Adjective

slam-door (not comparable)

  1. (UK) Applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.
    • At the time of the termination of the franchise, CSE was also part-way through a programme of introducing new trains to replace 622 of its oldest trains including its 558 slam-door vehicles.2005, Great Britain, The South Eastern Passenger Rail Franchise, National Audit Office
    • And as for slam-door trains, you can bet there will be some teenagers growing up soon who just stand there with the door closed and have no idea why the train has moved off without letting them out...2009, Benedict le Vay, Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide, page 258

Examples of slam-door in a sentence

  • It's a combination of the company's attempts to repair its dreadful reputation for punctuality, and the 1970s slam-door carriages.2010, Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain:
  • For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 68:

Questions about slam-door

What does slam-door mean?
Slam-door means applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.
How do you use slam-door in a sentence?
It's a combination of the company's attempts to repair its dreadful reputation for punctuality, and the 1970s slam-door carriages.
What part of speech is slam-door?
Slam-door is an adjective.

Words near slam-door in the dictionary

  1. slam-dance
  2. slam-danced
  3. slam-dancer
  4. slam-dances
  5. slam-dancing
  6. slam-door
  7. slam-dunk
  8. slam-dunk approach
  9. slam-dunk approaches
  10. slam-dunks
  11. Slama

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