gee-string
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I’ve got two senators and five congressmen back there in Washington that jigger when I jerk the gee-string.
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His fathers before him had worn no clothes, and neither did he, not even a gee-string.
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His gee-string was decorated with a belt of white shells, the long free end hanging down in front, and he had his bolo, like the rest of his people, in a half-scabbard—that is, kept by two straps on a strip of wood, shaped like a scabbard.
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Thus the only “civilized,” so to say, elements are the forage cap and khaki jacket worn directly over the skin; otherwise the legs, feet, and body are bare; the local gee-string is worn, with the free end hanging down in front.
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The hold is taken with both hands on the gee-string in the small of the back; and, as all these men have strong and powerful legs, the events were hotly contested and never completed without a desperate struggle.
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