longhorn
n.— «The train was going 45 mph on a railroad track that has a 49-mph speed limit, McClary said. That’s too fast, said Susan Fernandez, who lives across the street from the tracks where the “longhorns”—as she calls them—travel through, horns blaring.» —“5 textile workers die in train wreck” by J.R. Gonzales The State (Columbia, S.C.) Nov. 11, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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