cold meat train

English

Etymology

So called because this train used to convey corpses to Woking on behalf of the London Necropolis Company.

Noun

cold meat train (plural cold meat trains)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete, military) The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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