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Boot Hill

Boot Hill proper noun: name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.

Proper noun

Boot Hill

  1. (US) Name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.
    • Every few days some unfortunate was buried on Boot Hill, a victim of his own inexpertness with the six-shooter.1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 13, in A Man Four-Square
    • Where have all the TV Westerns gone? A genre once adored by viewers lies dead, but not forgotten, in television's Boot Hill.2008 May 23, Gail Pennington, “'60s upheaval shot down Westerns”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, retrieved 08 Jun 2008
    Synonyms:
    cemetery
  2. (slang) The position of short leg.

Synonyms of Boot Hill

Questions about Boot Hill

What does Boot Hill mean?
Boot Hill means name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.
What part of speech is Boot Hill?
Boot Hill is a proper noun.

Words near Boot Hill in the dictionary

  1. boot cuts
  2. boot disk
  3. boot disks
  4. boot fair
  5. boot fairs
  6. Boot Hill
  7. boot jack
  8. boot knife
  9. boot knives
  10. boot licker
  11. boot lip

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