Usually means: Underground rapid transit train systems.
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  1. subways: Merriam-Webster
  2. subways: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subways: Vocabulary.com
  4. Subway's, Subways, subway's, subways: Wordnik
  5. subways: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. subways: Wiktionary
  7. subways: Dictionary.com
  8. subways: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Subways (song), Subways, The Subways (album), The Subways: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Subways: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Subways: Encyclopedia

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  1. The Subways: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See subway as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subway)

noun:  (Canada, US, Scotland, South Africa) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
noun:  (Canada, US, Scotland, South Africa) A train that runs on such an underground railway.
noun:  (Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
noun:  (British) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
noun:  An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
noun:  An underground route for creatures (e.g. bats).
verb:  (intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.
▸ Also see subway


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