bangtail
Noun
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Noun
bangtail (plural bangtails)
- 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rD0FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA259&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=2-7ATrWoKaHumAXO9siiBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 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 stamped them in the eyes of our friends as “ out-and-out ” thorough-breds—were led up and down by John. […] The bang-tails, no doubt, supposing themselves out for their usual “airing,” put themselves in the regular side-long position, and struck at once into a sort of hectic canter ; a particular movement, peculiar to Brighton bang-tails, and adapted to the most innocent equestrian.
- 1903, Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy), Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, 2004, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nncnQeXyWGkC&pg=PA68&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=8v_ATo3TNsjxmAWGyN2KBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 68],
- "And did you see a dark chestnut horse; bang tail; star and snip; white hind feet; saddle and bridle on?" I asked.
- 1851, Turning Out a Bagman: A Legend of Brighton Downs, in Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Bentley's Miscellany, Volume XXIX, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rD0FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA259&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=2-7ATrWoKaHumAXO9siiBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 259],
- (US) A racehorse.
- 1934, Stanley Walker, City Editor, 1999, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1Li4Iq8XZdsC&pg=PA99&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=MS7BTuDeGoubmQWsufi_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 99],
- “Eddie!” whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. “Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!”
- 1937, The American Magazine'', Volume 124, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CqpXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=YRPBTvHyGq72mAWJ5oS6BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y page 52],
- Americans bet $5,000,000,000 a year on the galloping bangtails.
- 1983 March, Cincinnati Magazine, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5B0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=DSTBTrnIPK_KmAWorunDBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bangtail|bangtails%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 43],
- If you happen to be out on the far east side between April 23 and September 5, with $10 burning a hole in your pocket, hie yourself out to River Downs Race Track, 6301 Kellogg Avenue, and bet on the bangtails.
- 1934, Stanley Walker, City Editor, 1999, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1Li4Iq8XZdsC&pg=PA99&dq=%22bangtail|bangtails%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=MS7BTuDeGoubmQWsufi_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 99],
- (slang) A prostitute.
- (marketing) An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed; the flap on such an envelope.
bangtail (bangtails, present participle bangtailing; past and past participle bangtailed)
- To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.
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