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dry-gulch

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[ drahy-guhlch ]

verb (used with object)

Informal.
  1. to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling:

    The riders were dry-gulched by bandits.

  2. to betray by a sudden change of attitude or allegiance:

    The party dry-gulched its chief candidate at the convention.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dry-gulch1

First recorded in 1865–70
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We’ve been in a long, dry-gulch period of dully politicized sex, which is now sputtering out into round-the-clock crusades for transgender bathrooms—knuckle-rapping morality repackaged as hygiene.

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In 1905 it was set up as a dry-gulch railroad town handling transshipments of fruits and vegetables from California to the Midwest.

But the threat to dry-gulch him was another matter.

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If you ever come up here we'll dry-gulch you, sure.

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"I wanted to have a look at the man who wrote the note to James Cunningham threatenin' to dry-gulch him if he ever came to Dry Valley again."

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