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A short or shortened tail of certain animals
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bobtail
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having a short or shortened tail; "bobtail mare" [syn: bobtailed ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bobtail may refer to: An animal with its tail bobbed A wolf who was leader of the man-eating Wolves of Paris A natural bobtail , an animal with a genetically short tail Japanese Bobtail , a breed of cat American Bobtail , a breed of cat Kurilian Bobtail ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And take the Prime Minister and the rest of the rag, tag and bobtail with you. ▪ He was just one of the rag tag and bobtail .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A short, or deliberately shortened tail. 2 Hence, also said of some animals that have a '''bobtail''', such as certain canines or nags. 3 (context agriculture English) A tractor which performs without its trailer. 4 A tractor-trailer that is relatively ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bobtail \Bob"tail`\, n. [Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail , the rabble.
Usage examples of bobtail.
They gave my bobtail coat to somebody else, and sent me an ulster suitable for a giraffe.
I had allowed Bobtail and his Crew to make free with the labs at all hours of the morning, disturbing and imperiling experiments on matters so arcane there was no point in identifying them.
Mister, my bobtailed, battle-scarred tomcat, had leapt up onto the stones before the fireplace, his luminous green eyes wide and fixed on Susan.
They were out on Bear Hill the whole day, beating up the bushes as if for game, scaring old crows out of their ragged nests, and in one dark glen startling a fierce-eyed, growling, bobtailed catamount, who sat spitting and looking all ready to spring at them, on the tall tree where he clung with his claws unsheathed, until a young fellow came up with a gun and shot him dead.
Mexico, Brazil, and Poland overdubbed in cheap, sleazy attempts to revive vaudeville, and taped coverage of such stellar live sports events as Demolition Derby, and Bobtail truck races.
They were out on Bear Hill the whole day, beating up the bushes as if for game, scaring old crows out of their ragged nests, and in one dark glen startling a fierce-eyed, growling, bobtailed catamount, who sat spitting and looking all ready to spring at them, on the tall tree where he clung with his claws unsheathed, until a young fellow came up with a gun and shot him dead.
The humbugs were small, brown, bobtailed animals, built with spider leanness and very quick.
From the neck down he looked, indeed, like a European manservant: tight black trousers, striped vest, bobtailed black jacket.
Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not.
Miss Coblenz back to Gor Khatri and I have to say I was afraid you might have wrecked my careful arrangements when your rag tag and bobtail outfit rolled into the fort!
It contained big ten-wheel-drive Bobtail sand trucks, hoverjeeps, a half-dozen late-model tankseven a small air force of jethoppers, sailplanes, and a black-painted orbital vehicle.
Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity.
The Emperor, surrounded by his suite of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head.
One in a black uniform with white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who was in a white uniform rode a black one.
On the march from Vyazma to Tsarevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp.