Gricer

Quick meaning: Gricer is a noun meaning (informal) A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter.

Meaning

(informal) A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter.

Example Sentences

Such an eclectic mix of rolling stock also created the movement of standing train spotters and inspired the early gricers, those enthusiastic train photographers.

Betjeman, who was a bit of a gricer, wrote: "I know of no greater pleasure for elevenses in London than to sit in this tea place and watch the trains arrive and depart."

This Delphi of railway enthusiasm, this holy grail for gricers, has a lure at least as strong as its grander contemporaries such as the Settle & Carlisle or West Highland Line, which were saved from closure and are still alive today.

The train was stuffed full of journalists and gricers, as railway enthusiasts are pejoratively termed. Some of the gricers, earnest, fresh-faced young men, almost to a person, who cut their milk teeth on Hornby trains, had booked on this train two years ago.

Word Forms

• gricers

Synonyms for gricer

Depending on context, synonyms include ferroequinologist, gunzel, railfan, trainspotter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gripper, basher, locospotter, gunzel, grouser, griper.

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