goat roping
n.— «I’ve been to two world fairs, goat roping in Idaho and cut off at Unsan, but I’ve never seen anything like this.» —“Bridgeport Office Lauds Buddy Who ‘Fires’ Artillery By Radio” by Albert E. Barrantine in Korea Bridgeport Sunday Post (Conn.) July 1, 1951. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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