Crime
Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.
Railroad and crime are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Railroad" instead a noun "Crime".
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
Railroad
Railroad noun - A roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel.
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Synonyms for Railroad
Crime and railroad are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crime" instead a noun "Railroad".
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The group is prone to zealotry, with a tendency to railroad people into getting labeled as sex offenders (such as a mentally-disabled man whose only crime was public urination).
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Since then, it has been used and re-used, often as a metaphor for American Gun Politics; after all, villains don't have to register with a Weird Trade Union in order to start robbing banks or tying women to railroad tracks, any more than a criminal needs a licensed weapon to commit a crime.
Source: Super Registration Act - The eponymous police officer begins investigating the murder of an unknown man found on the railroad tracks, and starting with almost no clues, he travels around Japan to make sense of the crime and find the killer.
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