cow chips
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of cow chips
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn.
From Literature
After all, he’d never had any coaching growing up, but he organized games for the 12 siblings on the family farm, where they used cow chips for bases.
From Washington Times
Valley-area bovines chow down on peelings and cooked chips that aren’t quite up to snuff — yes, they call them cow chips.
From Washington Post
The fuel with which to prepare this food was, for most of them, hay, or in summer cow chips, and later on, when they began to raise corn, corn cobs.
From Project Gutenberg
The fuel had given out, as we had feared—cow chips and all.
From Project Gutenberg
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