Definitions
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- noun informal A
railway enthusiast .
Etymologies
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From grice, supposed plural of grouse (on analogy to mouse/mice), from a person who bags railway locomotives as a sportsman bags grouse.
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What's the difference between a twitcher and a gricer?
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Robin Clutterbuck, Newton Abbot dSteve Bell has captured the sound of a run-down Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive as well anyone - I think he might be a gricer.
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