cow town
noun
a small town, especially one in a cattle-raising district in the western U.S. or Canada.
a town or city, especially in the western U.S. or Canada, from which cattle are shipped to market.
Origin of cow town
1First 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 KnibbsWillets was a cow-town, and for the winter its activity was over.
The Trail Horde | Charles Alden SeltzerThe meetings that I attended were held in Miles City, at that time a typical cow town.
Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore RooseveltIt was of the type of the average cow-town of the western plains—artificial and crude.
Square Deal Sanderson | Charles Alden SeltzerThe little cow-town "set" was being torn down to make room for something else quite different.
The Quirt | B.M. Bower
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