Mile Long Club

English

Etymology

By analogy with Mile High Club.

Proper noun

the Mile Long Club

1. (humorous) A notional club that one joins by having sex aboard a train.
   • 1997 November, Nick Paumgarten, “Into Training”, in Skiing, page 20E:

     One confessed to necking in a graveyard, and another to her, um, induction into the Mile Long Club.

   • 2003 June 10, “Love is in the air”, in The Telegraph:

     Surprisingly, no one has yet set up an online shrine to the Mile Long Club, which is devoted to similar triumphs aboard Eurostar as it trundles under the Channel.

   • 2011, Bennett Gavrish, Train Wreck, unnumbered page:

     "Relax, sweets. It's okay," Jamal said and let out a sigh. "You don't gotta be so hostile. I've come to accept the fact that I'm not gonna join the mile long club tonight."
     "What's the mile long club?" asked Bradley, who was wide awake after his own snoring had interrupted his sleep, much to the relief of the other passengers.
     "You've heard of the mile high club, right? That means you've fucked on an airplane. The mile long club is the train version. That shit's wicked exclusive."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mile Long Club.

See also

• Mile High Club