cow chips
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of cow chips
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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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 ● Nov. 12, 2016
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 ● Mar. 21, 2014
They had bad ole Marvin Zindler high-steppin' through his favorite den of iniquity like a virgin bride navigatin' a field of cow chips.
From Time Magazine Archive
We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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 Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by H. B. Reese
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