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bullet train
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bullet train
n.
A high-speed passenger train.
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Noun1.bullet trainbullet train - a high-speed passenger train        
passenger train - a train that carries passengers


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With subways and a maglev system and bullet trains that are 40 years old and they're still way ahead of us.
That's what it says on the side of new bullet trains that speed from Tokyo to Osaka.
For all the bullet trains of Japan and France's TGVs, the railway of today has become a sign of nostalgia, more a souvenir than an agent of modernity.
 
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