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trainspot

trainspot verb: to take part in train spotting.

Verb

trainspot (third-person singular simple present trainspots, present participle trainspotting, simple past and past participle trainspotted)

  1. (intransitive) To take part in train spotting.
    • Back in 1950, on a three week vacation with a Yorkshire school friend at Doncaster, we made bus trips to trainspot in various South Yorkshire locations.2021, David Maidment, Midland Railway and L M S 4-4-0 L

Forms of trainspot

third-person singular presenttrainspots
present participletrainspotting
past participletrainspotted
pasttrainspotted

Origin of trainspot

Back-formation from trainspotting.

Questions about trainspot

What does trainspot mean?
Trainspot means to take part in train spotting.
What part of speech is trainspot?
Trainspot is a verb.
What is the past tense of trainspot?
The past tense of trainspot is trainspotted.

Words near trainspot in the dictionary

  1. trainsgender
  2. trainshed
  3. trainsheds
  4. trainsick
  5. trainsickness
  6. trainspot
  7. trainspots
  8. trainspotted
  9. trainspotter
  10. trainspotterish
  11. trainspotters

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