Usually means: Railroad worker who aligns tracks.
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  1. gandy dancer: Merriam-Webster
  2. gandy dancer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gandy dancer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gandy dancer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gandy dancer: Vocabulary.com
  6. gandy-dancer, gandy dancer: Wiktionary
  7. gandy dancer: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. gandy dancer: Dictionary.com
  9. gandy dancer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Gandy dancer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. gandy dancer: Rhymezone
  12. gandy dancer: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gandy dancer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Gandy Dancer: The Word Detective
  15. gandy dancer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Gandy dancer: World Wide Words

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gandy dancer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gandy dancer: The Folk File
  3. Gandy Dancer: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (chiefly US, idiomatic) A railway laborer, especially a member of a crew which carries rails and affixes them to ties.

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gandy-dancer, gangman, navvy, gangsman, bargee, rag bagger, gypsy, wagonman, gomer, drummer, more...
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gandy-dancer, gangman, navvy, gangsman, bargee, rag bagger, gypsy, wagonman, gomer, drummer, more...



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