trainload
English
Alternative forms
- train load
Etymology
train + load
Noun
trainload (plural trainloads)
- The amount that can be transported by a train.
- (by extension) A large amount.
- You just bought yourself a trainload of trouble. I think you're now in over your head.
- 1926, Gerald William Bullett, The Baker's Cart: And Other Tales, page 164:
- A shudder ran through Mr. Binnacle. Better a whole trainload of invigilators than this grotesque and solitary persecutor!
- 2012, Mary Seaton, Tales From The Sand Hills, page 47:
- They were peculiar people, slow. Well more backwards I think, probably a bit retarded. Well very retarded actually - the father had a few 'roos loose in the top paddock but the mother had a whole trainload.
Synonyms
- trainful