bobtail
noun
a short or docked tail.
Example Sentences
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In a bobtailed telephone survey taken ten days before for the state AFL-CIO organization, Quayle was less successful in catching the Wallace surge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the house a bobtailed cat prowls the kitchen counter while Trigger, the pet guinea pig, snoozes in its cage.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Kellock the butcher is the nominal owner of an old bobtailed collie which rejoices in the name of Bang.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
