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cow chips

cow chips is the plural of cow chip.

Meaning of cow chip

Noun

cow chip (plural cow chips)

  1. A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.
    • Eleodes obsoleta: Common on the plains, beneath cow-chips and rubbish, everywhere from Denver to Colorado Springs.1877, Philip Reese Uhler, "ART. XXXI - Report upon the insects collected by P. R. Uhler during the explorations of 1875," U. S. Department of the Interior, p. 778 (Google preview)

Questions about cow chips

What is cow chips the plural of?
Cow chips is the plural of cow chip.

Words near cow chips in the dictionary

  1. cow cat
  2. cow catcher
  3. cow catchers
  4. cow cats
  5. cow chip
  6. cow chips
  7. cow cockies
  8. cow cocky
  9. cow cod soup
  10. cow college
  11. cow colleges

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