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California toothpick

noun

Definitions

  1. A Bowie knife.

    • the latter a most formidable weapon, only inferior in size and weight to the modern "California toothpick."
    • Men cut each other with "California toothpicks" (bowie knives). Mosquitoes swarmed in the hot evenings.

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