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cowpooling

cowpooling noun: the practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them. Also the present participle and gerund of cowpool.

Noun

cowpooling (uncountable)

  1. The practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them.
    • Cowpooling, however, is far more involved than simply grabbing a sirloin from the grocery freezer.2008 May 21, Wency Leung, “You take the ribs, I'll take the rump”, in The Globe and Mail

Also used as

cowpooling is also the present participle and gerund of cowpool.

Origin of cowpooling

From cow + pooling, by analogy with carpooling.

Questions about cowpooling

What does cowpooling mean?
Cowpooling means the practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them.
What part of speech is cowpooling?
Cowpooling is a noun.

Words near cowpooling in the dictionary

  1. cowpokes
  2. cowponies
  3. cowpony
  4. cowpool
  5. cowpooled
  6. cowpooling
  7. cowpools
  8. cowpox
  9. cowpox virus
  10. cowpox viruses
  11. cowpoxes

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