gandy dancer

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   a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang

   Broaderlaborer

Questions about gandy dancer

What does gandy dancer mean?

gandy dancer means "a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang".

Is gandy dancer a common word?

gandy dancer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.