Usually means: Transportation system using trains, tracks.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word railroad:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. railroad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. railroad: Merriam-Webster
  3. railroad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. railroad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. railroad: Collins English Dictionary
  6. railroad: Vocabulary.com
  7. Railroad, railroad: Wordnik
  8. railroad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. railroad: Wiktionary
  10. railroad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. railroad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. railroad: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Railroad, railroad: Dictionary.com
  14. railroad (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. railroad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Railroad (disambiguation), Railroad (song), Railroad, The Railroad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Railroad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. railroad: Rhymezone
  19. Railroad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. railroad: FreeDictionary.org
  21. railroad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. railroad: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. railroad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Railroad: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. railroad: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. railroad: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. railroad, railroad, railroad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. railroad: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See railroaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (chiefly US, Philippines) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
noun:  (chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
noun:  (chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
noun:  (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
verb:  (transitive) To transport via railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To operate a railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To work for a railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel by railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
verb:  (transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
verb:  (transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
verb:  (transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
verb:  (roleplaying games) To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
verb:  (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
noun:  A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, so-named for the Northern Central Railway.
noun:  A township in Starke County, Indiana, United States.

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