Texas toothpick

Definitions

1. 1

   A knife with a long narrow blade, especially one that is a folding knife.

   • This is gonna be like bleedin' a steer. Turn around, mister, or I'll stick this Texas toothpick in your eyes, one at a time.
   • I got a telegram from over in Ellsworth that he has a fondness for slicing men up with that Texas toothpick of his.
   • Bob was the only man the author ever knew to carry a mint-condition fishing knife—not unlike this Case Classic Texas toothpick—into the Wyoming high country and use it on brook trout.
2. 2

   A raccoon baculum, carried as a lucky charm.

   • New Orleans gamblers are said to use the bones (also called coon dogs and Texas toothpicks) for luck.
   • In the southern United States, the baculums of raccoons— nicknamed Texas toothpicks—are considered signs of luck and fertility.

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