hop a freight
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hop a freight (third-person singular simple present hops a freight, present participle hopping a freight, simple past and past participle hopped a freight)
- To travel as a stowaway aboard a freight train on a railroad.
- 1915 April, Edward L. Tinker, ““Nevers” for Children”, in The Mediator, volume 7, number 4, Cleveland, page 12:
- Never hop a freight, for nothing quite heals
The wound received under grinding wheels.