slip coach

1. 1.

   a railway car at the end of the train; it can be detached without stopping the train

   Synonymsslip carriage

   Broadercar

   United Kingdom

Questions about slip coach

What does slip coach mean?

slip coach means "a railway car at the end of the train; it can be detached without stopping the train".

What is another word for slip coach?

Close synonyms include slip carriage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slip coach a common word?

slip coach 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.