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Word: hoghead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...when you inform the world that Mrs. Walter R. Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak of rust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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