bullet train

noun

: a high-speed passenger train especially of Japan

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The state’s bullet train project is a case in point. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2025 Initially pitched to voters in 2008 as a $40 billion high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco, the California bullet train project has seen its price tag balloon to at least $100 billion, with most of the funding still unrealized. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025 The haphazard and sometimes failed attempts to incorporate digital information into state government services is one, and the much troubled bullet train project is another. Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025 The Houston-to-Dallas bullet train project is one step closer to reality. Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bullet train

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bullet train was in 1966

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“Bullet train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bullet%20train. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

Kids Definition

bullet train

noun
: a very high-speed passenger train
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