bangtail
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bangtail
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From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).
noun bangtails · bang tail · bang-tail
- The tail of a horse or cow, allowed to grow out and then trimmed horizontally so as to form a tassel; a horse or cow having such a tail. 1851, Turning Out a Bagman: A Legend of Brighton Downs, in Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Bentley's Miscellany, Volume XXIX, page 259, Two lean, ewe-necked, clipt chestnuts, tucked up in the ribs, with hard work and bad feeding, but with such flowing bang-tails as at once
- A racehorse. “Eddie!” whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. “Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!”
- A prostitute.
- An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed; the flap on such an envelope.
verb bangtails · bangtailing · bangtailed · bang tail · bang-tail
- To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.
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