What is "shoats"

Usage examples of "shoats".

It was also true that Rydell wasn't sure you could say Creedmore had done it so much as been it, but the way things had worked out, it looked as though Creedmore and Shoats had happened along at exactly the right time, although Rydell's own Lucky Dragon experience suggested to him that it was far from over.

Randy Shoats said, stepping heavily down from the stage, "you fucking drug addict.

The shoats added their own tones to her music, and there was none of the gaiety one might have expected from a pair of instruments whose name still meant "circus" even though the wandering shows for which calliopes had been designed had long been extinct.

At least, she had the cow and the calf, a few shoats and the horse, and the neighbors had nothing but the little they had been able to hide in the woods and bury in the ground.

She knew that she should kill one of the shoats but she put it off from day to day, hoping to raise them to maturity.

One of the shoats would have to be killed the next day if they were to eat at all.

She not only begrudged them every mouthful they ate but she was on tenterhooks lest they discover somehow that Pork had slaughtered one of the shoats the day before.

Two shoats grunted and squirmed at him through the fence, black pigs, sunning and comfortable.

If you could buy shoats on credit, fatten them on food that cost next to nothing, sell them, pay off your loan, and take your profit, you would really have done something.