footplate man

See also: footplateman

English

Noun

footplate man (plural footplate men)

  1. Alternative spelling of footplateman.
    • 1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293:
      The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845:
      Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
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