heifer dust
heifer dust noun: bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
Noun
heifer dust (uncountable)
- Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- There is a dub on the span board that throws out a lot of heifer dust.1912, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Amalgamated Transit Union (contributor), “Congratulates 479”, in The Motorman And Conductor, volume 21...
- Even if they do get pinched, they always have some heifer dust ready about laying a trap for a ship, and trying to make the shore in an hour to get evidence against her to have her pulled in.1927, Eric Sherbrooke Walker, The Confessions of a Rum-Runner, page 256
Examples of heifer dust in a sentence
- The obligation is to provide the people with the truth; not with a lot of rhetoric and heifer dust, if I may use that phrase.1972, United States Congress, Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates Volume 118, Part 11, page 14430:
- I've got to tell you, Maddie, I think what he's preachin' is just a bunch of heifer dust."2018, Emily March, Capture The Night:
Synonyms of heifer dust
Questions about heifer dust
- What does heifer dust mean?
- Heifer dust means bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
- How do you use heifer dust in a sentence?
- The obligation is to provide the people with the truth; not with a lot of rhetoric and heifer dust, if I may use that phrase.
- What part of speech is heifer dust?
- Heifer dust is a noun.
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