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gandy dancer

NOUN
  1. a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang

How To Use gandy dancer In A Sentence

  • And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called ‘Mint bars’ and ‘Stockmen's bars,’ silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs.
  • He said he had started as a gandy dancer and worked his way up to roadbed foreman with a crew of twenty men to supervise. In The Shadow of The Cypress
  • My mother fixed whatever a gandy dancer brought to the boxcar where we lived. Rain Gods
  • On the other side of the blanket, Edna Collins was going at it with a dark-skinned gandy dancer while two more waited outside, their hands stuffed in their canvas coat pockets, their slouch hats pulled low over their ears as protection against the wind. Rain Gods
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