bangtail

n. <美俚>赛马用的马

发音

AU

词形变化

bangtails 复数 bangtails bangtailed bangtailing bangtails 三单 bangtailing 现在分词 bangtailed 过去式 bangtailed 过去分词

别名

bang-tail bang tail

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    1903, Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy), Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, 2004, page 68, "And did you see a dark chestnut horse; bang tail; star and snip; white hind feet; saddle and bridle on?" I asked.

  2. 2.

    A racehorse.

    美国
  3. 3.

    A prostitute.

    俚语
  4. 4.

    An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed; the flap on such an envelope.

    商务
v.
  1. 1.

    To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

racehorse

上位词 1

horse

下位词 10

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相关短语

bangtail muster bangtail musters

词源

From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).

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