pin-hooking
v.— «“We’ve virtually been in every phase of the business,” he said. “We’ve claimed, owned, trained and even done some pin-hooking for three years.” But the pin-hooking business, in which they would buy a horse at an auction in Kentucky in hopes of selling it for a higher price in California, had its down side.» —“Dentist’s Drill Differs at Track” by Mitch Polin Los Angeles Times May 11, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Kentuckian named Sheila moved out of state for several years, but now that she’s returned to work at Western Kentucky University, she finds that many students no longer seem to have a stereotypically “Southern” accent...
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