bullet train

bullet train

English

Noun

bullet train (plural bullet trains)

1. (rail transport) A high-speed passenger train in Japan which runs at speeds from 200-300 kilometers per hour on the shinkansen network.
2. (rail transport) A high-speed train which resembles such a train.
3. (informal) Suicide by small firearm; see take the bullet train.

   “I should probably take the bullet train, and save her the grief.”

Translations

Japanese high-speed train

Arabic: شِينْكَانْسِن‎ m (šinkansen) Chinese: Mandarin: 新幹線 (zh), 新干线 (zh) (xīngànxiàn), 子彈火車 (zh), 子弹火车 (zh) (zǐdàn huǒchē) Danish: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: ŝinkanseno Finnish: luotijuna (fi), shinkansen French: shinkansen m German: Shinkansen m, Hochgeschwindigkeitszug (de) m Hebrew: שינקנסן‎ m (shinkansen)

Hindi: शिनकानसेन (śinkānsen) Japanese: 新幹線 (ja) (しんかんせん, shinkansen) Korean: 신칸센 (sinkansen) Mongolian: шинкансэн (šinkansen), суман галт тэрэг (suman galt tereg) Portuguese: (Brazil) trem-bala m, (Portugal) comboio-bala m Russian: синкансэ́н m (sinkansɛ́n), высокоскоростно́й по́езд m (vysokoskorostnój pójezd) Spanish: tren de alta velocidad, shinkansen m Swedish: shinkansen Vietnamese: shinkansen

high-speed train

Chinese: Mandarin: 子彈火車 (zh), 子弹火车 (zh) (zǐdàn huǒchē), 高鐵 (zh), 高铁 (zh) (gāotiě) Danish: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: (please verify) ŝinkanseno Finnish: luotijuna (fi) German: Hochgeschwindigkeitszug (de) m, Superexpress m

Hindi: बुलेट ट्रेन f (buleṭ ṭren) Japanese: 超特急 (ちょうとっきゅう, chōtokkyū), 弾丸列車 (だんがんれっしゃ, dangan ressha) Korean: 초특급 (ko) (choteukgeup), 탄환열차 (tanhwanyeolcha), 총알열차 (chong-aryeolcha), 총알고속열차 (chong-algosogyeolcha) Portuguese: (Brazil) trem-bala m, (Portugal) comboio-bala m Russian: высокоскоростно́й по́езд m (vysokoskorostnój pójezd), суперэкспре́сс (ru) m (superɛkspréss)

suicide by small firearm

Chinese: Mandarin: 舉槍自盡, 举枪自尽 (jǔqiāngzìjìn) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ampumaitsemurha, ampuma-aseella tehty itsemurha

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