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bangtail
noun- one of several inferior kinds of horse; a racehorse US, 1921
From the practice of bobbing the horse’s tail. - — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 12, 1951
- “Wherever the bangtails are running, this Banjho’s there.” — Ovid Demaris, The Last Mafioso, p. 423, 1981
- Most cowboy’s horses are sorry-looking beasts, bang-tails, hammer-heads, scruffy animals with questionable parentage. Then there is that black she is riding. — George Bowering, Caprice, p. 195, 1987
- a return-address envelope sent with a bill, containing a product offer on a detachable portion of the envelope flap US
- — Rachel S. Epstein and Nina Liebman, Biz Speak, p. 16, 1986
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