[Ads-l] "run a train"

[Ben Zimmer]

You'll find both "pull" and "run" in Green's Dictionary of Slang -- "pull"
from 1949 and "run" from 1972.

https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/sqzg3fy

On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM Dennis During <
00001bcaf94bd005-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> in my youth, I heard "pull a train" for this.
>
> Dennis C. During
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 15:05 Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've heard the subject phrase (meaning "multiple males having sex with
> one
> > girl; gang bang") (which is not in OED) in locker-room type
> conversations.
> > But have never seen it before in semi-serious public discourse on current
> > events (re: the ongoing Cornell 7 situation):
> >
> > "And when a girl demonstrates that she presents this kind of risk, the
> > protocol is to ban her from the house. But you can’t ban her from the
> house
> > afterward your brothers have already run a train on her."
> >
> > https://x.com/DanFriedman81/status/2106170767482220958?
> >
>

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