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ride the rods

verb1

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(US, slang) To travel illicitly by clinging to the supporting rods under a freight train.
- And a dangerous extracurricular activity had helped turn his muscles to iron: he “rode the rods” with other boys, clinging to the underframework of Union Pacific freight cars rumbling through Abilene. — 1970

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rode the rods · ridden the rods · riding the rods · rides the rods

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