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tie-pass
[< tie, q.v. + pass card or slip entitling bearer to free passage on a train]
West, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a trip on foot along a railway track.
See: tie
Quotations
1912
I shall have to work my passage on handcars and doubtless by tie pass.
1918
"Out of town by the first train that comes in--East or West. . . ." "We ain't got the price," was the somewhat aggrieved answer. "Then take a 'tie pass,' d--n you," said the Sergeant grimly.