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Bangtail
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- 1 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 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."
- 2 a horse bred for racing wordnet
- 3 A racehorse. US
"“Eddie!” whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. “Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!”"
- 4 A prostitute. slang
- 5 An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed; the flap on such an envelope.
- 1 To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.
Etymology
From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).
From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).
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