cow town


noun
  1. a small town, especially one in a cattle-raising district in the western U.S. or Canada.

  2. a town or city, especially in the western U.S. or Canada, from which cattle are shipped to market.

Origin of cow town

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby cow town

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How to use cow town in a sentence

  • To suddenly stop off at a cow-town station, without baggage or definite itinerary, was unconventional, to say the least.

    Partners of Chance | Henry Herbert Knibbs
  • Willets was a cow-town, and for the winter its activity was over.

    The Trail Horde | Charles Alden Seltzer
  • The meetings that I attended were held in Miles City, at that time a typical cow town.

    Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt
  • It was of the type of the average cow-town of the western plains—artificial and crude.

    Square Deal Sanderson | Charles Alden Seltzer
  • The little cow-town "set" was being torn down to make room for something else quite different.

    The Quirt | B.M. Bower