cornfield meet
noun/ˈkɔːnfiːld ˌmiːt/UK/ˈkɔɹnˌfild ˌmit/US
Etymology
Either from the fact that early train collisions often occurred out in the country alongside a cornfield rather than in a station or siding; or from staged events where two old steam locomotives were purposely run head on at each other, often in an open field, for public entertainment. In the latter idea, the term may jocularly echo field meet as a spectacle in the field involving opposing contestants.
Definitions
An accidental head-on collision or near head-on collision of two trains.
- Do you think it's possible for two trains to have a cornfield meet right in the middle of an automatically protected block? Of course it is, if one of the hoggers is drunk or asleep at the throttle […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA