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INDIAN FILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian file mean?
• INDIAN FILE (noun)
The noun INDIAN FILE has 1 sense:
1. a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
Familiarity information: INDIAN FILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
file; Indian file; single file
Hypernyms ("Indian file" is a kind of...):
line (a formation of people or things one behind another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indian file"):
snake dance (a group advancing in a single-file serpentine path)
column (a line of units following one after another)
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