cow chip

cow chip

slang A piece of cow feces. Watch out for cow chips when walking through that field.
See also: chip, cow
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cow chip

 and cow pie; cow patty; cow flop
Inf. a piece of cow manure. The pioneers didn't have much wood, so they burned dried cow chips. How did that big ol' cow pie get in the middle of my flower bed? Tom slipped on a cow patty.
See also: chip, cow
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

cow chips

n. dried cow dung. There’s a whole field of cow chips out there! Why do you want to buy a bag of the stuff at a nursery?
See also: chip, cow
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • cow chips
  • cow pie
  • cow patty
  • cow doots
  • cow-doots
  • doots
  • flop
  • patty
  • cow flop
  • cow plop
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