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hoolihan

hoolihan is the alternative form of houlihan.

Meaning of houlihan

Noun

houlihan (plural houlihans)

  1. A kind of lasso throw.
    • But if he could not throw the houlihan, he still might get down in the dirt of the corral to help with dehorning, castrating, and branding.2009, Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart, page 214

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Forms of hoolihan

pluralhoolihans

Questions about hoolihan

What is hoolihan the alternative form of?
Hoolihan is the alternative form of houlihan.

Words near hoolihan in the dictionary

  1. hooliganized
  2. hooliganizes
  3. hooliganizing
  4. hooliganry
  5. hooligans
  6. hoolihan
  7. hoolihans
  8. hoolivan
  9. hoolivans
  10. hoolock
  11. hoolock gibbon

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