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dry-gulch

dry-gulch is the alternative form of drygulch.

Meaning of drygulch

Verb

drygulch (third-person singular simple present drygulches, present participle drygulching, simple past and past participle drygulched)

  1. (US, slang) To murder; to attack, assault, especially in an ambush.
    • ‘Then one of them got into the car and dry-gulched me.’1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, page 77

Forms of dry-gulch

third-person singular presentdry-gulches
present participledry-gulching
past participledry-gulched
pastdry-gulched

Questions about dry-gulch

What is dry-gulch the alternative form of?
Dry-gulch is the alternative form of drygulch.

Words near dry-gulch in the dictionary

  1. dry-foot
  2. dry-fried
  3. dry-fries
  4. dry-fry
  5. dry-frying
  6. dry-gulch
  7. dry-gulched
  8. dry-gulches
  9. dry-gulching
  10. dry-handed
  11. dry-heave

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