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hoof
noun- a foot or shoe UK, 1598
- — Current Slang, p. 10, Summer 1969
- a sea turtle’s flipper CAYMAN ISLANDS
- The flipper of the turtle is called the “hoof.” — Aarona Booker Kohlman, Wotcha Say, p. 22, 1985
▶ on the hoof- working as a prostitute on the streets US
- She had no sense of it anymore, no idea of who the plainclothes might be, how fast the track was, whether she still had the heart to keep up her game out on the hoof. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 180, 1977
- on the spot, spontaneously US
From the literal sense of the term, applied to cattle or swine, meaning “alive”. - I just made that up on the hoof. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 270, 1992
▶ the hoof
dismissal from employment; expulsion UK- I got the hoof, man. The sack, the chop, the proverbial bullet. — Doug Lang, Freaks, p. 89, 1973
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