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Who-Hit-John

slang whiskey, especially of cheap or inferior grade

origin uncertain: may allude to wild bar brawls in a drunken state and the common male given name “John” for anyone so struck in such a fight indiscriminately and/or may be a corruption of ‘hooch

The cowboy always travelled on the drive with a bottle of Who-Hit-John in his hand.

by Jon64Bailey January 09, 2008


cowboying

American colloquial (noun) the work of cowboys; beef ranching

The men did cowboying for a living when gold fever and color in the river ran flat.

by Jon64Bailey January 13, 2009


roll

Informal to make something at home; manufacture anything non-commercially (descended from the practice of rolling one's own paper-wrapped smoking instruments)

I don't buy store-bought spaghetti sauce: I roll my own from scratch.

by Jon64Bailey April 08, 2013


roll

verb, disparaging usage used with "through" or "by", to move or travel through an area or by a place where you or your kind are not particularly welcome as in a certain community

The policeman told me that he noticed a bunch of punks rolling through my neighborhood lately when I was making a vandalism report about my car that was egged.

by Jon64Bailey November 20, 2013


cowboys-and-Indians

Americanism a game by which boys dress as and act like cowboys and/or American Indians as in play

Young American boys have played cowboys-and-Indians from day one.

by Jon64Bailey January 13, 2009


cowboy

(noun) 1. a man, or sometimes a boy, who tends or herds beef cattle or works on a beef ranch; COWMAN; COWHAND 2. Americanism, Colloquial any man or boy who wears the typical garb like that of a cowboy Sense 1 as in play or fashion 3. American slang a male person regarded as simple, rustic, idealistic, uneducated, crude, unsophisticated, wild, and/or reckless, also, a man who is a reckless car or truck driver 4. Americanism any male character in western pictures or novels who acts or dresses like a cowboys as a gunslinger, sheriff, train robbers, etc. in the old American west 5. American slang something regarded as western in culture as a book or film as “I have fifteen war films and fifty cowboys in my video collection.”
(adj) 1. like, of, or pertaining to cowboys and/or American western culture as a cowboy hat, a cowboy gun, or a cowboy movie 2. American slang shoddy, ad hoc or inferior in workmanship or quality as cowboy coffee or cowboy wiring
(vi) to do the work of cowboys; tend or herd beef cattle
-cowboy up American slang be a man; act as a genuine male; face a difficult challenge or task at hand

The cowboys rode sunup until sundown with grit teeth!!

by Jon64Bailey January 13, 2009


nutcracker

the infamous top bar on the frames of male bicycles which is so ironic and so-called for obvious reasons

The boy hit a telephone pole on his bike, slid forward off the seat and hit his groin right on top of the nutcracker and instantly became his hometown choir's most highly-prized soprano.

by Jon64Bailey July 16, 2014