stack talk
名词 n.
英 /ˈstæk tɔːk/
美 /ˈstæk ˌtɔk/|/-ˌtɑk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The sound made by the exhaust of a steam locomotive.
— […] Father [Clement C.] Kubesh began making long dashes after trains to insure the correct pitch of sound or the proper placing of his car for the approach of a locomotive. He soon had recorded the "stack talk" of every type of locomotive on the Great Northern, Chicago and North Western, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific.
词源
From stack (noun) + talk (noun). Stack is a clipping of smokestack (“conduit atop a structure (such as a steam locomotive) allowing smoke to flow out”).
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