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railroading

In gaming, the act of forcing a player to "choose to" do something they don't really want to in order to advance the plot according to the wishes or designs of the GM.

Thus, the player feels like they're being moved through a world (or plot) as if on train tracks, without any choice on where to go.
"So we have to search the lower dungeon to find the key, despite the fact that this door is rotten and my character has 19 strength? Stop railroading us!"
railroading by FeepingCreature March 9, 2013
1. to get someone unjustly convicted

2. force a resolution quickly

3. to coerce someone into doing something they would not otherwise do
I think he wanted to railroad congress.

Railroad Gin 

1. Cider and tomato juice
2. Brake Fluid
3. Piss
"The ragman gave me two cures and jumped right in, the one was texas medicine and the other was railroad gin" From 'Stuck in mobile with the memphis blues again' by Bob Dylan
Railroad Gin by dgbrown April 8, 2008
Literal meanings:

1. N., A roadway paved with a track made of rails, upon which locomotives push or pull a train of cars or trailers carrying people or freight.

2. Adj., Pertaining to such a roadway or the trains that travel upon it.

3. N., The industry of transporting people or freight by rail, or one or more of the companies within that industry.

4. Adj., Pertaining to that industry.

5. V., Transport upon a railroad.

Slang meanings:

1. V., to coerce, trick, or seduce others into a course of action that they would not otherwise choose. This includes, but is not limited to, specifically sexual situations.

2. N., Eleven, as if the two parallel numerals were the rails of a railroad track.
Literal: Southern Pacific (3) railroad's old (2) railroad cars can still be found along abandoned stretches of (1) railroad, because the industry can't be bothered to (5) railroad them to (4) railroad stations.

Slang:

1. Popular culture isn't going to be railroaded into adopting a narrow-mindedly specific sexual situation as the definition of railroad simply because someone described his favorite life experience as an UrbanDictionary definition.

2. We use the 802-railroad-G wireless protocol. (See WAP and 802.11g.)
railroad by Downstrike October 10, 2005

Railroad food 

AKA Chinese food. Derived form the large amount of Asians who worked building the railroads in the 19th century, introducing much of Western North America to Chinese food.
I'm hungry, I could really go for some railroad food!
Railroad food by Jdub73 June 23, 2014

railroad spike 

Sticking your thumb in a girls butt while doing her doggystyle, then smashing your hand with your other hand.
I was playin with that girls butt hole then gave the railroad spike to see if she liked it. She didn't.
railroad spike by Jimbo420 June 17, 2008