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hairy goat
noun
a racehorse that is a slow runner or poor performer AUSTRALIA, 1933- I thought I’d backed everything in me day from elephant-beetles when I was a kid to fighting cocks in the jungle and hairy goats what some jokers call horses, but I never nowhere knew no one come at backin’ rats. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 116, 1962
- “A bloody hairy goat” was how they described him to Fred. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 81, 1982
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