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hopper car
[hop-er kahr]
noun
a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hopper car1
Example Sentences
Union Pacific railroad said in a statement that the people were found in two cars on the train traveling east from Eagle Pass bound for San Antonio: 12 in a shipping container and three in a hopper car.
Hours later, agents discovered 11 more individuals locked inside another grain hopper car in a separate train inspection.
Would one of the railroad guards climb up to the hopper car, open the turret, and shine his light down inside the car?
There was a steel ladder on the side of the hopper car.
Lupita glanced back over her shoulder at the hopper car with horror!
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