bangtail

noun

Etymology

From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).

1
The tail of a horse or cow, allowed to grow out and then trimmed horizontally so as to…
The tail of a horse or cow, allowed to grow out and then trimmed horizontally so as to form a tassel; a horse or cow having such a tail.
- 1903, Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy), Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, 2004, page 68, "And did you see a dark chestnut horse; bang tail; star and snip; white hind feet; saddle and bridle on?" I asked.
- Lennan held the black horse — a bizarre little beast, all fire and whipcord, with a skin like satin, liquid eyes, very straight hocks, and a thin bangtail reaching down to them.
2
A racehorse.
- “Eddie!” whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. “Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!”
- Americans bet $5,000,000,000 a year on the galloping bangtails.
- If you happen to be out on the far east side between April 23 and September 5, with $10 burning a hole in your pocket, hie yourself out to River Downs Race Track, 6301 Kellogg Avenue, and bet on the bangtails.
A prostitute.
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1. An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed
  An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed; the flap on such an envelope.
2. To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA